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  Early Warning opens in 1953 with
the Langdon family at a crossroads. Their stalwart patriarch, Walter, who with his wife, Rosanna, sustained their farm
for three decades, has suddenly died, leaving their five children, now adults, looking to the future. Only one will
remain in Iowa to work the land, while the others scatter to Washington, D.C., California, and everywhere in between.

  
  As the country moves out of post–World War II optimism through the darker landscape of the Cold
War and the social and sexual revolutions of the 1960s and ’70s, and then into the unprecedented
wealth—for some—of the early 1980s, the Langdon children each follow a different path in a rapidly
changing world. And they now have children of their own: twin boys who are best friends and vicious rivals; a girl whose
rebellious spirit takes her to the notorious Peoples Temple in San Francisco; and a golden boy who drops out of college
to fight in Vietnam—leaving behind a secret legacy that will send shock waves through the Langdon family into the
next generation. 
  
  Capturing a transformative period through richly drawn characters we come to know and
care deeply for, Early Warning continues Smiley’s extraordinary epic trilogy, a gorgeously told saga that began
with Some Luck and will span a century in America. But it also stands entirely on its own as an engrossing story of the
challenges—and rewards—of family and home, even in the most turbulent of times, all while showcasing a
beloved writer at the height of her considerable powers. 
  
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  “Wondrous . . .
Early Warning is a good reminder that the big, juicy novel is ascendant again . . . Smiley enriches the great-events
model of American history with her equal attention to cultural history, and she makes the lives of obscure women, men
and children as important as the lives of Great Men . . . Like the 19th-century novels she invokes, her stories revel in
coincidences, repetitions, revelations and elaborations of events and themes. The surprises are irresistible. She plucks
from a crowded gathering of relatives and, one by one, develops lives that are rich, mysterious and constantly changing
. . . The Midwestern intonations of Early Warning shift subtly as Smiley narrates the Langdons’ moves to the East
and West coasts, their educations, their travels to Europe, their rapid ascension into wealth and the inclusion of other
ethnicities and sexual preferences into their midst. As their world expands, the events becomes mesmerizing, the reading
compulsive and the direct language a guard against sentimentality.” —Valerie Sayers, The Washington Post
   
  “Absorbing. It’s a good thing we only had to wait six months for Early Warning, the second
volume of Smiley’s ambitious Last Hundred Years trilogy. Why? Because we were eager to follow up on the members
of the Iowa farm family she introduced in Some Luck. As Smiley continues her year-by-year march, we are pulled into her
characters’ dramas. In its sweeping scope, Smiley’s saga recalls Balzac’s Human Comedy, John Dos
Passos’s U.S.A. trilogy and John Updike’s Rabbit quartet. Firmly rooted in history, this middle volume
begins two weeks after Joseph Stalin’s death in 1953 and extends through 1986. The novel’s cumulative
power lies in the unfolding lives of its characters. . . The Last Hundred Years trilogy is about change—both
societal and personal. One of [its] many pleasures is that her characters evolve, sometimes surprising even themselves.
Smiley’s signature achievement, in this by turns wry and wise old-fashioned yarn, is her skill at deftly shifting
focus between the long and short views. Early Warning doesn’t leave us hanging, but it does leave us looking
forward to the finale of this epic endeavor.” —Heller McAlpin, NPR.org
   
  “Wonderful. As
the title suggests, Early Warning is tinged with vague and real dread—not only the Cold War dread of nuclear
annihilation but also dread of the draft, of cults, of AIDS, of potential childhood accidents . . . Yet what’s
most captivating about Early Warning is not the panoramic view of large-scale historical events or the shifting social
zeitgeist of our country; they are background for the characters’ lives, longings and disappointments. Smiley
deftly shifts point of view, from toddler to grandmother, often in the same chapter. We intimately come to know all the
Langdons and the high emotional stakes in their lives . . . Smiley poses large questions and offers powerful
insights.” —Natalie Serber, San Francisco Chronicle
   
  “As in Some Luck, Early Warning
covers thirty-three years of societal, economic, and political change, [but] focuses on the individual experiences and
reactions of her characters. The Last Hundred Years has a restrained, subtle style; despite its old-fashioned feel,
there are no romanticized, happy endings. Smiley manages to work in a variety of experiences for her
characters—both loving and loveless marriages, in addition to adultery, alcoholism, homosexuality, and a suicide
attempt—without anything feeling melodramatic or overwrought . . . Above all, Smiley is a master of the intimate
details that reveal the inner depths of the characters. The third book of the trilogy will end in 2020, and it will be
fascinating to see what predictions of the future Smiley will make.” —Eleanora Buckbee, Everyday eBook
   
  “Nuanced and intimate. Smiley’s ambitious project, isn’t driven by traditional plot, or
rising action that leads to a climax and resolution. Instead, each chapter represents a year in the life of the family,
covering what’s notable, from the quotidian to eventful. It reads more like an unconventional diary, but that
doesn’t mean readers will be any less caught up in the small and large dramas of the Langdons’ everyday
lives . . . In Early Warning, Iowa is still the emotional and psychic vortex of the characters’ lives, no matter
how far they travel, or how many new, more diverse branches have sprouted on the Langdon family tree . . .
Smiley’s generous and engaging study of family life, time and place isn’t so much about what happens but
how things happen, and the ways in which the characters respond and endure. The unconventional form of Smiley’s
undertaking works for a long, sprawling epic, because the first two books in the trilogy somehow capture the feel and
aesthetic of an American family. You meet the Langdons in Some Luck, but by the time you finish Early Warning,
you’ll feel like you are one of them.” —Christi Clancy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
   
 
“Brilliant . . . Dickensian in its breadth and detail, Early Warning is distinctly un-Dickensian in its sense of
purpose. It reflects a distinctly modern understanding of life—and fiction—as unplotted except in the
direction and shape that each character, in uneasy alliance with chance, chooses and views as a meaningful pattern . . .
The book immerses us in daily life as experienced by the old and young, the aimless and enterprising. And when matters
of greater social or cultural consequence touch these lives, we see and feel them as a character does. Whether these
characters are debating politics, escaping an oppressive husband, facing grave illness, seeking solace in a cult,
falling in love, making a deal, going through basic training or caring for a child, their doings are conveyed in
intimate detail, felt and understood on each character’s own terms. Smiley delivers moments when, among the daily
maneuvers and mundane details the arc of her narrative lifts us, and we see for an instant how anything might
happen.” —Ellen Akins, Minneapolis Star Tribune
   
  “Enthralling . . . vividly etched . .
. Smiley grew up in the ’50s and ’60s, so the world of Early Warning is both familiar and fascinating to
her. Smiley’s books mix political and social ideas with personal lives. When the third volume of the trilogy is
published, Smiley hopes the readers will step back and ask a question: ‘Are the bad things that have happened in
the modern era things that we can correct . . . or is it too late?’ What is clear is Smiley’s commitment
to her craft. For her, it’s not about the awards. It’s about the work.” —Paul Freeman, San
Jose Mercury News
   
  “Monumental . . . phenomenally powerful. Smiley has a remarkable grip on all her
characters. Comparisons have already been made with John Updike’s towering Rabbit tetralogy, and both writers
have an extraordinary ability to define what it is to be American at the most intimate level. But where Updike is the
consummate stylist, Smiley speaks more plainly; where he is cool, she is warm. She is also very funny, and too finely
intelligent to stoop to folksiness . . . In fact, what Smiley feels most like here—for her faultless skills in
bringing a wide cast so vividly into being that we would know them anywhere; for the remarkable intensity of her feeling
for territory and landscape; and her combination of impatient intellect, emotional perspicacity and unfailing
humanity—is America’s Tolstoy . . . The satisfactions of the first two volumes of this trilogy have been
so complex and nourishing that the third installment can’t come soon enough.” —Christobel Ken, The
Guardian (UK)
   
  “The quietly great Jane Smiley takes a very different tack to telling a story.
[This] second volume, opens in 1953. This is a world of women with big hair who smoke while breastfeeding. You’ll
recognise them and their homes and their whiskydrinking husbands from Mad Men, of which this is the epic literary cousin
. . . Having such an extensive cast of characters could be confusing, but Smiley is a writer who, in a long career
spanning work in almost every genre, has always made sure the reader is having a good time . . She narrate the great sweep of the ages as it really happened, in all its
linked but disparate elements. She succeeds effortlessly and without tricks. The phrase ‘a great novelist at the
height of her powers’ is so overused, but for once here it really is true: Smiley has a gentle touch and an
audaciously limitless scope, and in combination these qualities allow her to do anything she likes.”
—Melissa Katsoulis, The Times of London 
   
  “Utterly engaging . . . Early Warning continues
the galloping chronological biography of a family and of the American century, year by year, child by child. They grow
up, move away to Chicago, California, New York; they make money, change nappies, have sex and sweep the yard. Smiley
covers most issues: therapy, homosexuality, cults, race, divorce, adultery and three decades of changing crops, gadgets,
fashions, language and music. She doesn’t judge. The dialogue is funny and real. The story rolls along . . . The
point of all this seems to be, we live, we die, we’re all equal. Early Warning is a masterpiece of quick and
perfectly executed brushstrokes. When the trilogy is completed (this year) we’ll have a major addition to the
grand chronicle of American Life.” —Rosie Goldsmith, The Independent (UK)
  
  “Opening
with the 1953 funeral of patriarch Walter, Smiley follows the Langdon family introduced in Some Luck through its second
and third generations . . . Smiley’s narrative web snares major postwar social changes [with] nicely specific
details. Each of the large cast of characters has sharply individualized traits, and they are unfailingly interesting.
The surprise appearance of a hitherto unsuspected relative reminds us [that] life and love are never perfect—they
simply are. Strong storytelling will keep readers looking forward to the promised third volume.” —Kirkus

  
  “Smiley has a big cast to wrangle in the second, atom-and-adultery-haunted volume of the
‘Last Hundred Years’ trilogy. Covering 1953 to 1986 at a clip of one year per chapter, the focus here is
the Cold War and its fallout . . . Smiley keeps you reading; she is as deft as ever at conveying the ways in which a
family develops.” —Publishers Weekly 						

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