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Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (1992, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherRandom House Publishing Group

ISBN-100449907481

ISBN-139780449907481

eBay Product ID (ePID)397465

Product Key Features

Book TitleThousand Acres

Number of Pages400 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1992

TopicFamily Life, Literary

GenreFiction

AuthorJane Smiley

Book SeriesReaders Circle Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight10.5 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN92-090058

Reviews"Brilliant. . . . Absorbing. . . . A thrilling work of art." -Chicago Sun-Times "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." -The Washington Post Book World "Powerful and poignant." -The New York Times Book Review "Superb. . . . There seems to be nothing Smiley can't write about fabulously well." -San Francisco Chronicle "It has been a long time since a novel so surprised me with its power to haunt. . . .A Thousand Acres[has] the prismatic quality of the greatest art." -Chicago Tribune "Absorbing. . . . Exhilarating. . . . An engrossing piece of fiction." -Time "A full, commanding novel. . . . A story bound and tethered to a lonely road in the Midwest, but drawn from a universal source. . . . Profoundly American." -The Boston Globe

TitleLeadingA

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisA successful Iowa farmer 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. An ambitious reimagining of Shakespeare's King Lear cast upon a typical American community in the late twentieth century, A Thousand Acres takes on themes of truth, justice, love, and pride, and reveals the beautiful yet treacherous topography of humanity.