A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling novel from one of America's greatest contemporary writers. Larry Cook's farm is the largest in Zebulon County, Iowa, and a tribute to his hard work and single-mindedness. Proud and possessive, his sudden decision to retire and hand over the farm to his three daughters, is disarmingly uncharacteristic. Ginny and Rose, the two eldest, are startled yet eager to accept, but Caroline, the youngest daughter, has misgivings. Immediately, her father cuts her out. In A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley transposes the King Lear story to the modern day, and in so doing at once illuminates Shakespeare's original and subtly transforms it. This astonishing novel won both of America's highest literary awards, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics' Circle Award.'A Thousand Acres is a strong, gnarled shocker of a novel.. superb.'
Sunday Times
'Epic fiction of the very highest order, naturalistic , penetrating and wholly absorbing.'
Literary Review
Jane Smiley is one of America's greatest contemporary novelists. The author of seven other novels, she taught at Iowa State University before moving to California to concentrate on her writing.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780006545484 |
| ISBN 10 | 0006545483 |
| Title | A Thousand Acres |
| Author | Jane Smiley |
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| Binding type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 2001-04-02 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
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