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SUMMARY: 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

Who reads Private Life?

Author

Jane Smiley; Baker & Taylor Axis 360

Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781400040605

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.18 / 5 (71 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14