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008 102505s2010 nyu 000 1 eng
010 _a2009037000
020 _a9781400040605
050 0 0 _aPS3569.M39
_bP75 2010
082 0 0 _aFIC SMI
100 1 _aSmiley, Jane
245 1 0 _aPrivate life
_b: a novel
_c/ Jane Smiley
250 _a1st ed
260 _aNew York
_b: Alfred A. Knopf
_c, 2010.
300 _a317 p.
_c; 25 cm.
500 _a"This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
520 _aMargaret 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".
610 2 0 _aUnited States
_b. Naval
_x--Officers
_v--Fiction
650 0 _aMilitary spouses
_x--Fiction
650 0 _aMarriage
_x--Fiction
655 0 _aPsychological fiction
942 _cMO
999 _c228204
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