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A Thousand Acres
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Bibliographic Details
- Format: Paperback
- Book condition: Very Good
- Binding: Paperback
- ISBN 10: 0804115761
- ISBN 13: 9780804115766
- Publisher: Ivy Books
- Place: Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
- Date published: 1996
- Size: 4.5 x 7 x 1.25 inches
- Weight: 0.45 pounds
Book Description
Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Ivy Books, 1996 Light denting to back cover, light edgewear.. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good.
Book summary
Larry Cook isn't getting any younger, and he decides to divide his 1000 acres of prime Iowa farmland between his three very different daughters: Ginny, Rose, and Caroline. But Caroline, who tends to speak her mind, lacks the proper enthusiasm for the deal, and Larry impulsively disinherits her. Vividly set in Iowa farm country, Jane Smiley's saga is a feminist statement, an exploration of family dysfunctionality, and a vivid echo of Shakespeare's KING LEAR.
Publisher Notes
"BRILLIANT . . . A THRILLING WORK OF ART."--Chicago Sun-Times
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. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Jessica Lange.
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