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Private lifeJane Smiley
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Private life

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A riveting new novel from the Pulitzer Prize--winner that traverses the intimate landscape of one woman's life, from the 1880s to World War II.Margaret Mayfield is nearly an old maid at twenty-seven in post--Civil War Missouri when she marries Captain Andrew Jackson Jefferson Early. He's the most famous man their small town has ever produced: a naval officer and a brilliant astronomer--a genius who, according to the local paper, has changed the universe. Margaret's mother calls the match "a piece of luck."Margaret is a good girl who has been raised to marry, yet Andrew confounds her…

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FormatPublisherYearPagesISBN
EditionAnchor2011—9781400033195
EbookKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group2010—9780307593788
EditionCenter Point Pub.2010—9781602858152
EditionAlfred A. Knopf2010—9781400040605
LiteratureOfficers' spousesOfficersUnited StatesMarriageFictionUnited States. NavyLarge type books