But spending three books and 1,200 pages with the Langdon family has created a special intimacy with her characters. In fact, the New Yorker called the second novel in the trilogy “a king-size American quilt.” Each chapter of the three novels- Some Luck, Early Warning, and the just-released Golden Age-covers a single year, starting just after World War I and arching into the not-so-distant future.Ī master prose stylist, Smiley is known for such ambitious, hefty epics as A Thousand Acres, Horse Heaven, The Greenlanders, and The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton. From Walter and Rosanna Langdon greeting their firstborn on New Year’s Day, 1920, to descendants abetting Wall Street scams and flirting with eco-terrorism, it’s a complex literary tapestry. The Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist has just completed a century-spanning trilogy that follows the tangled fortunes of an Iowa farm family and its bicoastal diaspora over five generations.
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