Smiley has charted the course of American life through an extended family forged by working the land and infiltrated by ambition.
The trilogy rests in the tradition of the expansive European novel but with an utterly American sensibility and scope. If we consider Jonathan Franzen the chronicler of how Americans live now, Smiley reminds us who they were, what they've become and what to expect from the seeds they've sown. Her view of American life is unsentimental while enjoying small victories and lamenting injustices. In these three books, she juggles more than 50 major characters, witnesses wars, chronicles the country's shift from agrarian-centric to information overload she births babies and grooms horses, delves into geopolitics and CIA plots, witnesses religious conversions, buries, grieves, and begins all over again with new generations. Each chapter of Golden Age (1987-2019) spans an entire year.ĭuring the course of one year, Smiley has published all three volumes of the riveting Last Hundred Years Trilogy, which begins in 1920 and dips into the future.
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