Author

Publication

2014 - Thorndike Press, Michigan

Language

English

Word Count

165,750 words, Guess

Page Count

663 pages

Identifiers

and 4 more
  • Better World BooksO7-AGO-494
  • Better World Books9781410473479
  • Better World BooksO6-ESS-389
  • Open LibraryOL27172452M

Classifications

  • DDC813/.54
  • LCCPS3569.M39 S66 2014b

Description

On their farm in Denby, Iowa, Rosanna and Walter Langdon abide by time-honored values that they pass on to their five wildly different yet equally remarkable children: Frank, the brilliant, stubborn first-born; Joe, whose love of animals makes him the natural heir to his family's land; Lillian, an angelic child who enters a fairy-tale marriage with a man only she will fully know; Henry, the bookworm who's not afraid to be different; and Claire, who earns the highest place in her father's heart. Moving from post-World War I America through the early 1950s, Some Luck gives us an intimate look at this family's triumphs and tragedies, zooming in on the realities of farm life, while casting-as the children grow up and scatter to New York, California, and everywhere in between-a panoramic eye on the monumental changes that marked the first half of the twentieth century.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Thorndike Press large print core
  • Thorndike Press large print core series

Other Editions

  • Some luckThorndike Press2014-01-01

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