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A Thousand Acres is a 1991 novel by American author Jane Smiley. It won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction , the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction in 1991 and was adapted to a 1997 film of the same name .
- Jane Smiley
- 1991
Jan 1, 2001 · A Thousand Acres, told from the middle of three daughters, is a story about a small farming community in rural Iowa during the mid-1970s and is loosely based on King Lear. A bunch of tragic shit happens that is mostly the fault of the men.
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A Thousand Acres is mostly set in the late 1970s, when Jimmy Carter was the president of the United States. Carter was seen by many as an incompetent, ineffectual leader, and perhaps the novel’s themes of impotence and infertility, and its frustrated tone are meant to mirror the famous “malaise” of the Carter era.
Nov 15, 2010 · This is mirrored in the basic premise of the novel – Larry Cook, a farmer whose family has worked the lands for generations, has a thousand acres of land. He decides it would be prudent to divide up the land before his death; if he passes the land contractually to his daughters now, they will avoid paying estate taxes if they inherit the land ...
Overview. Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres, published in 1991, tells the story of the Cook family, who live on the largest farm in Zebulon County, Iowa. It is 1979, and Larry Cook wants to deed his farm to his three daughters, only two of whom care about farming. As the narrative unfolds, dark secrets reveal the main characters, their strengths ...
Dec 2, 2003 · A Thousand Acres: A Novel. Paperback – December 2, 2003. PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A "powerful and poignant" twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare’s King Lear (The New York Times Book Review) that takes on themes of truth, justice, love, and pride—and centers on a wealthy Iowa farmer who decides to divide ...
- Jane Smiley
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Ambitiously conceived and stunningly written, A Thousand Acres reveals the beautiful yet treacherous topography of humanity. “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.”.
