Smiley, Jane. <br/><br/>
Private life :  a novel / 
Jane Smiley. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York :  Alfred A. Knopf,  2010. 
 - 317 p. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/> Library Journal, March 2010  Kirkus Starred, January 2010  Booklist, February 2010 
<br/><br/> 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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781400040605 (trade) 1400040604 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009037000 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>United States. Navy --Officers--Fiction.<br/>United States. Navy --Officers--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Officers' spouses--Fiction.<br/>Marriage--Fiction.<br/>Wives--Fiction.<br/>Marriage--Fiction.<br/>Historical fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Historical fiction.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS3569.M39  / P75 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>813/.54  [Fic]