Private life : a novel
/ Jane Smiley
- 1st ed
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 2010.
- 317 p. ; 25 cm.
"This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
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".