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From the champion of the Pulitzer Award: a powerful, engrossing new novel - the life span and times of a amazing family over three transformative generations in America. On their plantation in Denby, Iowa, Rosanna and Walter Langdon follow time-honored principles that they spread with their five wildly different children: from Frank, the handsome, willful first created, and Joe, whose love of pets and the land sustains him, to Claire, who makes a special place in her father's heart and soul. Each chapter in Some Success covers a single year, from 1920, as American military like Walter go back home from World War I, and increasing through the first 1950s, with the country on the cusp of extensive social and financial change. As the Langdons branch out from Iowa to both coasts of America, the non-public and the historical merge seamlessly: one point in time electricity is merely beginning to force the plantation, and the next a son is volunteering to struggle the Nazis; later still, a woman you'd seen growing up now has a little girl of her own, and you discover that your laughter and your admiration for each one of these lives are mixing with tears. Some Success offers on everything we look for in a work of fiction. Taking us through cycles of births and deaths, passions and betrayals, among character types we come to learn inside and away, this can be a tour de drive that stands wholly alone. Nonetheless it is also the first part of an stunning epic trilogy - a literary excursion that will span a century in America: an astonishing feat of storytelling with a beloved writer at the height of her powers.
