PULITZER PRIZE WINNER – NATIONAL BESTSELLER – A “powerful and poignant” twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare’s King Lear (The New York Times Book Review) that takes on themes of truth, justice, love, and pride–and centers on a wealthy Iowa farmer who decides to divide his farm between his three daughters.
When the youngest daughter 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. Ambitiously conceived and stunningly written, A Thousand Acres reveals the beautiful yet treacherous topography of humanity. “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 WorldAuthor: Jane Smiley
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 12/02/2003
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.18h x 5.10w x 0.86d
ISBN: 9781400033836
Language: English
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