Thousand Acres
by Jane Smiley
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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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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, fictionPlaces
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A thousand acres: a novel
2003, Anchor Books
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Thousand Acres
September 30, 1996, Ivy Books
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A thousand acres
1992, Fawcett Columbine
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A thousand acres
1991, Knopf, Distributed by Random House
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0394577736 9780394577739
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"AT SIXTY MILES per hour, you could pass our farm in a minute, on County Road 686, which ran due north into the T intersection at Cabot Street Road."
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