Title: A thousand acres
Description: This powerful twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare’s *King Lear* centers on a wealthy Iowa farmer who 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. Ambitiously conceived and stunningly written, *A Thousand Acres* takes on themes of truth, justice, love, and pride—and reveals the beautiful yet treacherous topography of humanity.
Subjects: Fiction, Family farms, Parent and adult child, Fathers and daughters, Inheritance and succession, Aging parents, Sisters, Farm life, National Book Critics Circle Award Winner, award:national_book_critics_circle_award=1991, award:national_book_critics_circle_award=fiction, Incest, Sexual Child Abuse, Fictional Works, Father-Child Relations, Family Relations, Amerikansk skønlitteratur, open_syllabus_project, Child Abuse, Sexual, Father-daughter relationship, Parent-child relationship, Domestic fiction, Large type books, Fathers and daughters, fiction, Iowa, fiction, Fiction, family life, general, Sisters, fiction
Places: Iowa