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A Thousand Acres (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

by Jane Smiley

A family inheritance becomes a reckoning

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    Pulitzer Prize winner

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A family inheritance becomes a reckoning

Set on a wealthy Iowa farm, Jane Smiley’s novel builds its family conflict around a decision to divide land among three daughters. The youngest objects and is excluded from her father’s will, setting in motion events that bring concealed truths and long-suppressed emotions into the open. Framed as a twentieth-century reimagining of King Lear, the story connects inheritance and family loyalty with questions of truth, justice, love, and pride. Its rural setting and domestic tensions give those questions a distinctly familial scale.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in literary fiction centered on family relationships and inheritance
  • Readers curious about modern reimaginings of Shakespeare, especially King Lear
  • Readers drawn to fiction exploring truth, justice, love, and pride

Themes

Family loyalty and conflictInheritance and exclusionTruth and justiceLove and pride

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Book overview

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A "powerful and poignant" twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare's King Lear (The New York Times Book Review) that takes on themes of truth, justice, love, and pride--and centers on a wealthy Iowa farmer who decides to divide his farm between his three daughters.

When the youngest daughter 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 reveals the beautiful yet treacherous topography of humanity.

"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
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