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Paperback. Pub Date :2004-05-04 Pages: 400 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins UK The Pulitzer Prize-winning. bestselling novel from one of America's greatest contemporary writers.Larry Cook's farm is the largest in Zebulon County. Iowa. and a tribute to his hard work and single-mindedness.Proud and possessive. his sudden decision to retire and hand over the farm to his three daughters. is disarmingly uncharacteristic.Ginny and Rose. the two eldest. are startled yet eager to accept. but Caroline . the youngest daughter. has misgivings.Immediately. her father cuts her out.In A Thousand Acres. Jane Smiley transposes the King Lear story to the modern day. and in so doing at once illuminates Shakespeare's original and subtly transforms it.This astonishing novel won both of America's highest literary awards. the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics' Cir...

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Aging Larry Cook announces his intention to turn over his 1,000-acre farm--one of the largest in Zebulon County, Iowa--to his three daughters, Caroline, Ginny and Rose. A man of harsh sensibilities, he carves Caroline out of the deal because she has the nerve to be less than enthusiastic about her father's generosity. While Larry Cook deteriorates into a pathetic drunk, his daughters are left to cope with the often grim realities of life on a family farm--from battering husbands to cutthroat lenders. In this winner of the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, Smiley captures the essence of such a life with stark, painful detail.
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“Brilliant. . . . Absorbing. . . . A thrilling work of art.” —Chicago Sun-Times

“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

“Powerful and poignant.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Superb. . . . There seems to be nothing Smiley can’t write about fabulously well.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“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

“Absorbing. . . . Exhilarating. . . . An engrossing piece of fiction.” —Time

“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

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  • PublisherFawcett Columbine
  • Publication date1992
  • ISBN 10 0006544827
  • ISBN 13 9780006544821
  • BindingPaperback
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages384
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