Private life : a novel / Jane Smiley.

By: Smiley, Jane.

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BookPublisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010Edition: 1st ed.Description: 317 p. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9781400040605 (trade); 1400040604.Subject(s): Officers' spouses -- Fiction | United States. Navy -- Officers -- Fiction | Marriage -- Fiction | Wives -- Fiction | United States. Navy -- Officers -- Fiction | Marriage -- Fiction | Historical fictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction.DDC classification: 813/.54 | [Fic] Summary: 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.

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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.

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Private life : a novel / Jane Smiley.

By: Smiley, Jane.