A lot can happen in 100 years, as Jane Smiley has shown to dazzling effect in the first two novels of her critically acclaimed Last Hundred Years trilogy. When Golden Age opens in 1987, the next generation of Langdons face economic, social, cultural, and political challenges unlike anything their ancestors had encountered before....

Early Warning opens in 1953 with the Langdons at a crossroads. Their stalwart patriarch Walter, who with his wife had sustained their Iowa farm for three decades, has suddenly died, leaving their five children looking to the future....

It\"s 1953, and the Langdons are at a crossroads. Their stalwart patriarch has died unexpectedly and his wife must try to uphold the Iowa farm they had sustained together for three decades. But of their five children, only one will remain to work the land; the others scatter from Washington, DC, to California, and everywhere in between....

A lot can happen in 100 years, as Jane Smiley has shown to dazzling effect in her astonishing, critically acclaimed Last Hundred Years Trilogy....

1920, Denby, Iowa: Rosanna and Walter Langdon have just welcomed their firstborn son, Frank, into their family farm. He will be the oldest of five. Each chapter in this extraordinary novel covers a single year, encompassing the sweep of history as the Langdons abide by time-honored values and pass them on to their children....