![]() ![]() ![]() The trilogy will eventually cover 100 years from 1920 to 2019. In Some Luck, the first novel in her new trilogy, The Last Hundred Years, Smiley returns to the Iowan farmscape near the town of Denby to cultivate ground for her epic family saga centred on the Langdons and, in this first volume, covering the years 1920 to 1953. ![]() Smiley says if she hadn’t lived in and around Iowa City for nine years she would not have given birth to her three children nor written a number of novels, including her 1992 Pulitzer-Prize winner, A Thousand Acres, a retelling of Shakespeare’s King Lear set on an Iowan farm, with generational conflict at its core. It was chance that took the 19-year-old Jane Smiley to Iowa in 1972, and some further luck that gave her a place in the renowned Iowa Writer’s Workshop in 1975-76. Smiley returns to Iowa, the setting of her Pulitzer-Prize winning novel A Thousand Acres, in this first book of an epic new trilogy. ![]() Tags: American fiction/ Jane Smiley/ Pulitzer Prize ![]()
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