Hardcover, 371 pages
English language
Published April 12, 1991 by Knopf, Distributed by Random House.
A 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.
Subjects
- Inheritance and succession -- Fiction
- Parent and adult child -- Fiction
- Fathers and daughters -- Fiction
- Aging parents -- Fiction
- Family farms -- Fiction
- Farm life -- Fiction
- Sisters -- Fiction
- Iowa -- Fiction