It is an easy and engrossing read with the cornfields, the snowstorms and the technological developments of the 20th century vividly evoked.There are so many elements to Some Luck, long-listed for the 2014 National Book Award, that wherever your interests may lie, there is much here from which to choose. USA Today Fans of big-cast family sagas with love and death and the world at large impinging only lightly - but tellingly - on events will love Some Luck. intimate, miraculous-the auspicious beginning of an American saga every bit as ambitious as Updike's magnum opus, anchored in the satisfactions and challenges of life on a farm, but expanding to various American cities and beyond. You must read it.Ĭharlotte Mendelson, Booker/Orange Prize nominated author of Almost English and When We Were Bad A masterpiece in the making. And, unlike most masterpieces, it's absorbing, witty, painful, pleasurable.
Some Luck is a Steinbeckian Little House on the Prairie: a rural tragedy, a domestic epic and an unassuming masterpiece. So here it is at last, the Great American Novel and, in retrospect, it seems obvious that the great Jane Smiley would be the one who wrote it. Tender, compelling and moving from the 1920s to the 1950s, told in multiple voices as rich as the Iowan soil, Some Luck is an astonishing feat of storytelling by a prize-winning author writing at the height of her powers. Some will fall in love, some will have families of their own, some will go to war and some will not survive.
As time passes, their little family will grow: from Frank, the handsome, wilful first-born, to Joe, whose love of animals and the land sustains him from Lillian, beloved by her mother, to Henry who craves only the world of his books and Claire, the surprise baby, who earns a special place in her father's heart.Īs Walter and Rosanna struggle to keep their family through good years and hard years - to years more desperate than they ever could have imagined, the world around their little farm will turn, and life for their children will be unrecognizable from what came before. After his return from the battlefields in France, Walter Langdon and his wife Rosanna begin their life together on a remote farm in Iowa. Some Luck is the first novel in the dazzling Last Hundred Years trilogy from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize Jane Smiley a literary adventure that will spans a century in America.ġ920.
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