A Thousand Acres
Author(s): Jane Smiley
A successful Iowa farmer decides to divide his farm between his three daughters. When the youngest objects, she is cut out of his will. This sets off a chain of events that brings dark truths to light and explodes long-suppressed emotions.
An ambitious reimagining of Shakespeare's King Lear cast upon a typical American community in the late twentieth century, A Thousand Acres takes on themes of truth, justice, love, and pride, and reveals the beautiful yet treacherous topography of humanity.
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in fiction
"Brilliant... Absorbing... A thrilling work of art." —Chicago Sun-Times
"A family portrait that is also a near-epic investigation into the broad landscape, the thousand dark acres of the human heart. . . . The book has all the stark brutality of a Shakespearean tragedy." —The Washington Post Book World
"Powerful and poignant." —The New York Times Book Review
General Fields
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- : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- : 0.295
- : 02 December 2003
- : 208mm X 130mm X 22mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : 384
- : Paperback / softback
- : Jane Smiley
