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"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…
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3 editions- Hardcover · English · 2018A Thousand AcresEveryman's Library · 456 pages · 9781101907962
- Audiobook · English · 1996A Thousand AcresRecorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing · 1 pages · 9781664427464
- Other · English · 2018Everyman · 456 pages · 9781841593821
Fiction, family lifeFiction, family life, generalIowa, fictionFathers and daughters, fictionSisters, fictionInheritance and successionFictionParent and adult child