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Private life [electronic resource] / Jane Smiley.
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- ISBN: 9780307593788 (electronic bk. : Adobe EPUB)
- ISBN: 0307593789 (electronic bk. : Adobe EPUB)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (317 p.)
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
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| General Note: | Description based on print version record. |
| System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console |
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| Subject: | Officers' spouses > Fiction. United States. Navy > Officers > Fiction. Marriage > Fiction. |
| Genre: | EBOOK. Psychological fiction. Electronic books. |
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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. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author ofA Thousand Acres . - Random House, Inc.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER ⢠From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acresâand âone of her generationâs most eloquent chroniclers of ordinary familial loveâ (The New York Times)âcomes a âmasterly…compelling depiction of a singular woman,â (The New Yorker), from her childhood in postâCivil War Missouri to California in the throes of World War II.Â
Here is the powerful, deeply affecting story of one Margaret Mayfield. When Margaret marries Captain Andrew Jackson Jefferson Early at the age of twenty-seven, she narrowly avoids condemning herself to life as an old maid. Instead, knowing little about marriage and even less about her husband, she moves with Andrew to his naval base in California. Margaret stands by Andrew during tragedies both historical and personal, but as World War II approaches and the secrets of her husbandâs scientific and academic past begin to surface, she is forced to reconsider the life she had so carefully constructed.Â
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A riveting and nuanced novel of marriage and family, Private Life reveals the mysteries of intimacy and the anonymity that endures even in lives lived side by side. - Random House, Inc.
Here is the powerful, deeply affecting story of one Margaret Mayfield, from her childhood in post'Civil War Missouri to California in the throes of World War II. When Margaret marries Captain Andrew Jackson Jefferson Early at the age of twenty-seven, she narrowly avoids condemning herself to life as an old maid. Instead, knowing little about marriage and even less about her husband, she moves with Andrew to his naval base in California. Margaret stands by Andrew during tragedies both historical and personal, but as World War II approaches and the secrets of her husband's scientific and academic past begin to surface, she is forced to reconsider the life she had so carefully constructed.Â
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A riveting and nuanced novel of marriage and family, Private Life reveals the mysteries of intimacy and the anonymity that endures even in lives lived side by side.
