Some Luck by Jane Smiley is the first in what
is promised to be a trilogy about an Iowa farm family through multiple
generations. I was attracted to the book
after reading Smiley’s Pulitzer Prize winning A Thousand Acres and found it a
worthwhile read. But after a half dozen
chapters I gave up on Some Luck. The author just takes too long to get to the
meat of her story. Her Iowa farm
characters from the 1920’s just aren’t that interesting and I didn’t have the
patience to see if that would change.
For this to be another Pulitzer Prize winner it will take a lot more
than some luck.
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