Title: Thousand Acres
Description: "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"--
Subjects: Fiction, family life, Fiction, family life, general, Iowa, fiction, Fathers and daughters, fiction, Sisters, fiction, Inheritance and succession, Fiction, Parent and adult child, Fathers and daughters, Aging parents, Family farms, Farm life, Sisters, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Family Life