A Thousand Acres
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0394577736
ISBN 13
9780394577739
Category
813 Fiction
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Publication Year
1991
Publisher
Pages
371
Subject
Inheritance and succession -- Fiction. Parent and adult child -- Fiction. Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
Abstract
Overview: 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.
Description
Publisher Comments
A thousand acres, a piece of land of almost mythic proportions. Upon this fertile, nourishing earth, Jane Smiley has set her rich, breathtakingly dramatic novel of an American family whose wealth cannot stay the hand of tragedy. It is the intense, compelling story of a father and his daughters, of sisters, of wives and husbands, and of the human cost of a lifetime spent trying to subdue the land and the passions it stirs. The most critically acclaimed novel of the literary season, a classic story of contemporary American life, A THOUSAND ACRES is destined to be read for years to come.
It has been a long time since a novel so surprised me with its power to haunt . . . . Its genius grows from its ruthless acceptance of the divided nature of every character . . . . This gives A THOUSAND ACRES the prismatic quality of the greatest art. -- Chicago Tribune
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award
A thousand acres, a piece of land of almost mythic proportions. Upon this fertile, nourishing earth, Jane Smiley has set her rich, breathtakingly dramatic novel of an American family whose wealth cannot stay the hand of tragedy. It is the intense, compelling story of a father and his daughters, of sisters, of wives and husbands, and of the human cost of a lifetime spent trying to subdue the land and the passions it stirs. The most critically acclaimed novel of the literary season, a classic story of contemporary American life, A THOUSAND ACRES is destined to be read for years to come.
It has been a long time since a novel so surprised me with its power to haunt . . . . Its genius grows from its ruthless acceptance of the divided nature of every character . . . . This gives A THOUSAND ACRES the prismatic quality of the greatest art. -- Chicago Tribune
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award
Biblio Notes
Genre/Form: Domestic fiction
Fiction
Material Type: Fiction, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Jane Smiley
ISBN: 0394577736 9780394577739
OCLC Number: 68813562
Awards: Winner of Pulitzer Prize Novel Category 1992
Description: 371 pages ; 24 cm
Responsibility: Jane Smiley.
Fiction
Material Type: Fiction, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Jane Smiley
ISBN: 0394577736 9780394577739
OCLC Number: 68813562
Awards: Winner of Pulitzer Prize Novel Category 1992
Description: 371 pages ; 24 cm
Responsibility: Jane Smiley.
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