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An edition of A thousand acres (1991)

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An edition of A thousand acres (1991)

A thousand acres

1st Ballantine Books ed

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The author of The Age of Grief and Ordinary Love and Good Will has written a breakthrough novel--winner of the Pulitzer Prize in fiction. When an Iowa patriarch decides to turn over his thriving farm to his three daugters, he sets off a series of tragic events that will eventually rip apart his family. Presents a powerful, mythic story of an American farm family in Iowa.

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Ballantine Books
Language
English
Pages
371

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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

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A thousand acres: a novel
2003, Anchor Books
in English - 1st Anchor Books ed.
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Thousand Acres
September 30, 1996, Ivy Books
Mass Market Paperback in English
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A thousand acres
1992, Fawcett Columbine
in English - 1st Ballantine Books ed.
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A thousand acres
1992, Thorndike Press
in English
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A thousand acres
1992, Flamingo
in English
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A thousand acres
1991-01-01, Ballantine Books
in English - 1st Ballantine Books ed
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A thousand acres
1991, Knopf, Distributed by Random House
Hardcover in English - 1st ed.

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New York
Genre
Fiction

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Library of Congress
PS3569.M39 T47 1992x

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Pagination
371, [14] p. ;
Number of pages
371

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL17058936M
ISBN 10
0449907481
LCCN
92090058
OCLC/WorldCat
26622006
LibraryThing
2310
Goodreads
901879

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Work ID
OL108543W

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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.

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