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A Thousand Acresby Jane Smiley
Awards1992 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
2006 PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:A successful Iowa farmer decides to divide his farm between his three daughters. When the youngest 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. An ambitious reimagining of Shakespeare's King Lear cast upon a typical American community in the late twentieth century, A Thousand Acres takes on themes of truth, justice, love, and pride, and reveals the beautiful yet treacherous topography of humanity. Review:"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 World Review:"Powerful and poignant." The New York Times Book Review Review:"It has been a long time since a novel so surprised me with its power to haunt....A Thousand Acres [has] the prismatic quality of the greatest art." Chicago Tribune Review:"Absorbing....Exhilarating....An engrossing piece of fiction." Time Review:"A full, commanding novel....A story bound and tethered to a lonely road in the Midwest, but drawn from a universal source....Profoundly American." The Boston Globe Review:"Brilliant....Absorbing....A thrilling work of art." Chicago Sun-Times About the AuthorJane Smiley is the author of more than ten works of fiction, including Good Faith, Horse Heaven, Moo, and The Greenlanders. In 2001 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in northern California. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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