Private Life
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Private Life is a historical novel by Jane Smiley that follows a Midwestern woman’s constrained marriage and inner world across the late 19th and early 20th centuries in America.
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| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Private Life canonical | 1 |
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Jane Smiley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awarded | California Book Award (Gold Medal for Fiction) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| coverArtist | Chip Kidd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| depicts |
American domestic life
ⓘ
California life ⓘ Midwestern American life ⓘ |
| explores | the tension between public events and private experience ⓘ |
| follows | a Midwestern woman’s constrained marriage ⓘ |
| genre |
domestic fiction
ⓘ
historical fiction ⓘ literary fiction ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 978-1-4000-4344-1 ⓘ |
| hasReception | critical acclaim for psychological depth ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
family relationships
ⓘ
marital conflict ⓘ science and astronomy ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | contemporary American literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Andrew Early
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Margaret Mayfield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person limited ⓘ |
| pageCount | approximately 320 ⓘ |
| partOf | Jane Smiley’s body of work ⓘ |
| primaryTheme |
constraints on women
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disillusionment ⓘ isolation ⓘ marriage ⓘ women’s inner lives ⓘ |
| protagonist | Margaret Mayfield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2010 ⓘ |
| publisher | Alfred A. Knopf ⓘ |
| setIn |
California
NERFINISHED
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Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ San Francisco Bay Area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPeriodEnd | early 20th century ⓘ |
| settingPeriodStart | late 19th century ⓘ |
| shortlistedFor | Folio Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeSpan | from the 1880s to World War II era ⓘ |
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