Smiley, Jane

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".

9781400040605

2009037000


United States . Naval ----Officers----Fiction


Military spouses----Fiction
Marriage----Fiction


Psychological fiction

PS3569.M39 / P75 2010

FIC SMI