Smiley, Jane.

Private life : a novel / Jane Smiley. - 1st ed. - New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. - 317 p. ; 25 cm.

Library Journal, March 2010 Kirkus Starred, January 2010 Booklist, February 2010

In post-Civil War Missouri, quiet twenty-seven-year-old Margaret Mayfield marries the brilliant and eccentric scientist Andrew Early. The couple eventually make their way by train to their new life in California where their marriage grows troubled as Margaret gradually comes to realize she has married a madman.

Adult Follett Library Resources

9781400040605 (trade) 1400040604

2009037000


United States. Navy --Officers--Fiction.
United States. Navy --Officers--Fiction.


Officers' spouses--Fiction.
Marriage--Fiction.
Wives--Fiction.
Marriage--Fiction.
Historical fiction.


Historical fiction.

PS3569.M39 / P75 2010

813/.54 [Fic]