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Author:

Smiley, Jane.

Title:

A thousand acres / by Jane Smiley ; introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallett.

Publisher:

Alfred A. Knopf

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

pages cm.

Subject:

Parent and adult child--Fiction.
Farm life--Fiction.
Fathers and daughters--Fiction.
Family farms--Fiction.
FICTION / Family Life.
Aging parents--Fiction.
Inheritance and succession--Fiction.
Sisters--Fiction.
FICTION / Literary.
Iowa--Fiction.

Other Authors:

Hughes-Hallett, Lucy, writer of introduction.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and chronology.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Everyman's library

ISBN:

1101907967 (hardback)
9781101907962 (hardback)

LCCN:

2017052985

Locations:

YTPG232 -- Clinton Public Library (Clinton)

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

SPPE104 -- Independence Public Library (Independence)

EYPC755 -- Kingsley Public Library (Kingsley)

UBPC631 -- Webb Shadle Public Library (Pleasantville)

LNPC975 -- Sergeant Bluff Public Library (Sergeant Bluff)

BWPD851 -- Bertha Bartlett Public Library (Story City)