Last Hundred Years Trilogy: A Family Sag Some Luck, Book 1, (Paperback)

from nivramkoorb

The basic story is about a farm family in Iowa and is told in 34 chapters ranging from 1920 to 1953. This book is meant to be the first of a trilogy and I read it with that in mind. I have read Jane Smiley books and I have enjoyed her. This book was written in a simple style and really details fa...

from froxgirl

Jane Smiley's return to rural life is a steady, knowledgeable novel whose overriding sentiment is "anything can happen on a farm". In this book, it does. The central character is Frank, son of Rosanna and Walter, themselves farm children of German heritage. Frank is so intelligent and defiant tha...

from pdebolt

Some Luck, the first in a trilogy, chronicles the lives of the Langdon family on their Iowa farm from 1920-1953. Rosanna and Walter Langdon with their five surviving children experience many tragedies and triumphs during this turbulent period in American history. The children are diverse in perso...

from porch_reader

"Walter Langdon hadn't walked out to check the fence along the creek for a couple of months - now that the cows were up by the barn for easier milking in the winter, he'd been putting off fence-mending - so he hadn't seen the pair of owls nesting in the big elm." So begins [Some Luck], the first ...

from jwood652

We follow the lives of the Langford family, an Iowa farm family. This first installment of the trilogy covers 1920 to 1953, going from the plowhorse era, early tractors, Great Depression into the post WWII era. It illustrates the incredibly tough farmers life, hardships of war on the homefront an...