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Private life [electronic resource] : [a novel] / by Jane Smiley.
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".
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- ISBN: 9780307715340 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 0307715345 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 9780307715326 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 0307715329 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- Publisher: [Westminster, Md.] : Books on Tape, 2010.
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| General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 13:41:20. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Kate Reading. |
| System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 196732 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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| Subject: | Officers' spouses > Fiction. United States. Navy > Officers > Fiction. Marriage > Fiction. |
| Genre: | DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK. Psychological fiction. Audiobooks. |
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- Baker & Taylor
As her husband's obsessions with science take a darker turn on the eve of World War II, Margaret Mayfield is forced to consider the life she has so carefully constructed. - Findaway World Llc
A riveting new novel from the Pulitzer Prizeâwinner that traverses the intimate landscape of one womanâs life, from the 1880s to World War II.
Margaret Mayfield is nearly an old maid at twenty-seven in postâCivil War Missouri when she marries Captain Andrew Jackson Jefferson Early. Heâs the most famous man their small town has ever produced: a naval officer and a brilliant astronomerâa genius who, according to the local paper, has changed the universe. Margaretâs mother calls the match âa piece of luck.â
Margaret is a good girl who has been raised to marry, yet Andrew confounds her expectations from the moment their train leaves for his naval base in faraway California. Soon she comes to understand that his devotion to science leaves precious little room for anything, or anyone, else. When personal tragedies strike and when national crises envelop the country, Margaret stands by her husband. But as World War II approaches, Andrewâs obsessions take a different, darker turn, and Margaret is forced to reconsider the life she has so carefully constructed.
Private Life is a beautiful evocation of a womanâs inner world: of the little girl within the hopeful bride, of the young woman filled with yearning, and of the faithful wife who comes to harbor a dangerous secret. But it is also a heartbreaking portrait of marriage and the mysteries that endure even in lives lived side by side; a wondrously evocative historical panorama; and, above all, a masterly, unforgettable novel from one of our finest storytellers. - Random House Digital
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 expectations from the moment their train leaves for his naval base in faraway California. Soon she comes to understand that his devotion to science leaves precious little room for anything, or anyone, else. When personal tragedies strike and when national crises envelop the country, Margaret stands by her husband. But as World War II approaches, Andrew's obsessions take a different, darker turn, and Margaret is forced to reconsider the life she has so carefully constructed.Private Life is a beautiful evocation of a woman's inner world: of the little girl within the hopeful bride, of the young woman filled with yearning, and of the faithful wife who comes to harbor a dangerous secret. But it is also a heartbreaking portrait of marriage and the mysteries that endure even in lives lived side by side; a wondrously evocative historical panorama; and, above all, a masterly, unforgettable novel from one of our finest storytellers.From the Hardcover edition. - Random House, Inc.
A riveting new novel from the Pulitzer Prizeâwinner that traverses the intimate landscape of one womanâs life, from the 1880s to World War II.
Margaret Mayfield is nearly an old maid at twenty-seven in postâCivil War Missouri when she marries Captain Andrew Jackson Jefferson Early. Heâs the most famous man their small town has ever produced: a naval officer and a brilliant astronomerâa genius who, according to the local paper, has changed the universe. Margaretâs mother calls the match âa piece of luck.â
Margaret is a good girl who has been raised to marry, yet Andrew confounds her expectations from the moment their train leaves for his naval base in faraway California. Soon she comes to understand that his devotion to science leaves precious little room for anything, or anyone, else. When personal tragedies strike and when national crises envelop the country, Margaret stands by her husband. But as World War II approaches, Andrewâs obsessions take a different, darker turn, and Margaret is forced to reconsider the life she has so carefully constructed.
Private Life is a beautiful evocation of a womanâs inner world: of the little girl within the hopeful bride, of the young woman filled with yearning, and of the faithful wife who comes to harbor a dangerous secret. But it is also a heartbreaking portrait of marriage and the mysteries that endure even in lives lived side by side; a wondrously evocative historical panorama; and, above all, a masterly, unforgettable novel from one of our finest storytellers.
From the Hardcover edition.
