He is thinking about the vicissitudes of farming the admonishments of his strict father, a more successful and established farmer who lives down the road his love for his 20-year-old, self-possessed and talkative wife Rosanna and his five-month-old son, Frank-the first of five children who grow into memorable individuals over the course of the novel, and, presumably, go on in the next two novels to great and less great things. Some Luck opens in 1920 with Walter Langdon, on the eve of his 25th birthday, walking the fence lines of his barely-making-it farm near Denby, Iowa. I really do feel that it’s one thing, and it’s important for volumes one and two to be in the reader’s mind when he or she is reading volume three.” Smiley is emphatic in her desire that “all three come out as soon as possible. She says she has already completed all of the volumes in the trilogy, which covers 100 years in the life of one family, with each chapter focusing on a single year. Smiley is the author of such best-selling novels as Moo and the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Thousand Acres, as well as five works of nonfiction. “Well, that’s up to Knopf,” she says during a call to her home in Carmel Valley, California. The question that will burn in a reader’s mind when she finishes Some Luck, Jane Smiley’s marvelous new novel, is: How long do I have to wait to read the second volume in The Last Hundred Years trilogy?
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