Private Life

by Jane Smiley and Kate Reading

Book Overview

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres--and "one of her generation's most eloquent chroniclers of ordinary familial love" (The New York Times)--comes a "masterly...compelling depiction of a singular woman," (The New Yorker), from her childhood in post-Civil War Missouri to California in the throes of World War II.

Here is the powerful, deeply affecting story of one...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1400033195
• ISBN13: 9781400033195
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 7.9"