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The novel is a modernized retelling of Shakespeare's King Lear and is set on a thousand-acre (four hundred hectares) farm in Iowa owned by a family of a father and his three daughters. It is told through the point of view of the oldest daughter, Ginny.
- Jane Smiley
- 1991
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Jan 1, 1991 · A Thousand Acres, told from the middle of three daughters, is a story about a small farming community in rural Iowa during the mid-1970s and is loosely based on King Lear. A bunch of tragic shit happens that is mostly the fault of the men.
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- Jane Smiley
A Thousand Acres is designed as a modernization of William Shakespeare’s 1606 play King Lear, sometimes called the greatest play (or even the greatest work of literature) ever written.
Oct 15, 2011 · A Thousand Acres is a “classic novel” in at least one sense: it’s carefully crafted, traditional realist fiction of a very high order. It’s a model novel, the kind that should be, and is,...
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. Her novella The Age of Grief was made into the 2002 film The Secret Lives of Dentists.
A Thousand Acres follows the Lear story not slavishly, but obviously enough to provoke thought. The most successful farmer in his northwest Iowa county, Larry suddenly and inexplicably decides...
A short summary of Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of A Thousand Acres.
