The first instalment in the Pulitzer Prize-winner's masterpiece - a trilogy following one family over a hundred years.
Gli ultimi cento anni: Una saga familiare Serie
Questa vasta saga narra le vite di una famiglia americana lungo un intero secolo. Segue le generazioni attraverso i loro trionfi e le loro difficoltà, dalle lotte belliche alle tragedie personali. La narrazione si addentra profondamente nei cicli di nascita, amore e perdita, rispecchiando al contempo momenti cruciali della storia americana. È un'esplorazione avvincente di come gli eventi personali e storici si intrecciano, plasmando i destini degli individui e l'eredità di una famiglia.
Ordine di lettura consigliato
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Early Warning
- 812pagine
- 29 ore di lettura
"Early Warning" opens in 1953 with the Langdon family at a crossroads. Their stalwart patriarch, Walter, who with his wife, Rosanna, sustained their farm for three decades, has suddenly died, leaving their five children, now adults, looking to the future. Only one will remain in Iowa to work the land, while the others scatter to Washington, D.C., California, and everywhere in between. As the country moves out of post World War II optimism through the darker landscape of the Cold War and the social and sexual revolutions of the 1960s and 70s, and then into the unprecedented wealth for some of the early 1980s, the Langdon children each follow a different path in a rapidly changing world. And they now have children of their own: twin boys who are best friends and vicious rivals; a girl whose rebellious spirit takes her to the notorious Peoples Temple in San Francisco; and a golden boy who drops out of college to fight in Vietnam leaving behind a secret legacy that will send shock waves through the Langdon family into the next generation.
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Golden Age
- 720pagine
- 26 ore di lettura
The final novel in Jane Smiley's masterpiece - the Last Hundred Years trilogy