![]() ![]() He’s already left, first to fight in the Second World War, then to the East Coast. “Joe is the one who stays home and takes over the farm, which has always been his dream,” said Smiley from her home in Carmel Valley. “Early Warning” picks up as the family gathers for Walter’s funeral in 1953, and becomes, said Smiley, the story of the Langdon’s five children. In “Some Luck” – the chapter headings marking the passing of each year – Smiley told the story of Walter and Rosanna Langdon and the five children they reared on their Iowa farm. Smiley visits Bookshop Santa Cruz May 11 to discuss the trilogy. “Early Warning” continues the saga that began with “Some Luck,” released just last October and which will end with the release of “The Golden Age,” to be released in October 2015. “Early Warning” is the second – there’s another number – installment of the three-part saga of the Langdon family spanning a century, the palindromical dates of which are likely to give numerologists a smile, 1920-2019. Jane Smiley admits to being something of a “numbers freak,” and the two numbers to keep in mind when contemplating her new novel “Early Warning” are 3 – the book is part of a trilogy – and 100 – the trilogy’s title is “The Last Hundred Years.” ![]()
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