From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize: the much-anticipated final volume, followingSome Luck and Early Warning, of her acclaimed American trilogya richly absorbing new novelthat brings the remarkable Langdon family into our present times and beyond A lot can happen in one hundred years, as Jane Smiley shows to dazzling effect in her Last Hundred Years trilogy. But asGolden Age, its final installment, opens in 1987, the next generation of Langdons face economic, social, politicaland personalchallenges unlike anything their ancestors have encountered before.Michael and Richie, the rivalrous twin sons of World War II hero Frank, work in the high-stakes world of government and finance in Washington and New York, but they soon realize that ones fiercest enemies can be closest to home; Charlie, the charming, recently found scion, struggles with whether he wishes to make a mark on the world; and Guthrie, once poised to take over the Langdons Iowa farm, is instead deployed to Iraq, leaving the landever the heart of this compelling sagain the capable hands of his younger sister. Determined to evade disaster, for the planet and her family, Felicity worries that the farms once-bountiful soil may be permanently imperiled, by more than the extremes of climate change. And as they enter deeper into the twenty-first century, all the Langdon womenwives, mothers, daughtersfind themselves charged with carrying their storied past into an uncertain future.Combining intimate drama, emotional suspense, and a full command of history, Golden Agebrings to a magnificent conclusion the century-spanning portrait of this unforgettable familyand the dynamic times in which theyve loved, lived, and died: a crowning literary achievement from a beloved master of American storytelling.From the Hardcover edition.