A Thousand Acres
Smiley, Jane
A Thousand Acres / Jane Smiley - New York : Fawcett Columbine , c1991. - 371 p. ; 21 cm.
A 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.
9780449907481
Fathers and daughters----Fiction
Family farms----Fiction
Iowa----Fiction
Domestic fiction
Allegories
FIC SMI
A Thousand Acres / Jane Smiley - New York : Fawcett Columbine , c1991. - 371 p. ; 21 cm.
A 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.
9780449907481
Fathers and daughters----Fiction
Family farms----Fiction
Iowa----Fiction
Domestic fiction
Allegories
FIC SMI
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