Thousand Acres
by Marguerite Duras, Rachel Kushner, Jane Smiley
Fiction, family lifeFiction, family life, generalIowa, fictionFathers and daughters, fictionSisters, fictionInheritance and successionFictionParent and adult child
"The only hardcover edition of Jane Smiley's most famous novel--King Lear on an Iowa farm--which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992. With a new introduction. This powerful twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare's King Lear centers on a wealthy Iowa farmer who decides to divide his farm among his three daughters. When the youngest objects, she is cut out of his will, which sets in motion a chain of events that brings dark truths to light. Ambitiously conceived and stunningly written, A Thousand Acres spins the most fundamental themes of truth, justice, love, and pride into a universally acclaimed masterpiece"--
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Book data: Open Library