A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

A Thousand Acres

Jane Smiley with Lucy Hughes-Hallett (Contributor)

456 pages first pub 1991 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary dark emotional sad slow-paced
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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 among his three daughters. When the youngest objects, she is cut out of his will, which sets in motion a chain o...

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