Private life, a novel, by Jane Smiley
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Private life, a novel, by Jane Smiley
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eng
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fiction
Main title
Private life
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by Jane Smiley
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a novel
Summary
Margaret Mayfield is nearly an old maid at twenty-seven in post-Civil War Missouri when she marries Captain Andrew Jackson Jefferson Early. He's the most famous man their small town has ever produced: a naval officer and a brilliant astronomer, a genius who, according to the local paper, has changed the universe. Margaret's mother calls the match "a piece of luck"
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