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Mar 26, 2021 · English. 371 pages ; 24 cm. Dark truths and long-suppressed emotions come to the surface in 1979 when a successful Iowa farmer decides to cut one of his daughters out of his will. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1992.
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Jan 1, 1991 · Her best-selling A Thousand Acres, a story based on William Shakespeare's King Lear, received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992. It was adapted into a film of the same title in 1997. In 1995 she wrote her sole television script produced, for an episode of Homicide: Life on the Street. Her novella The Age of Grief was made into the 2002 ...
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Jan 5, 2011 · 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 ...
- Jane Smiley
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011
- unabridged, reprint
- A Thousand Acres: A Novel
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.”.
In A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley has chosen to retell King Lear as a novel set on the Iowa plain. She succeeds in creating an artwork with the intelligence and technical mastery we've come to expect from the extraordinarily gifted author of the 1989 Ordinary Love & Good Will. But, with the inevitability of anyone reaching for a goal far ...
