A thousand acres

Jane Smiley

About this book

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

  • aging parents
  • amerikansk skønlitteratur
  • award:national_book_critics_circle_award=1991
  • award:national_book_critics_circle_award=fiction
  • child abuse, sexual
  • domestic fiction
  • family farms
  • family relations
  • farm life
  • father-child relations
  • father-daughter relationship
  • fathers and daughters
  • fathers and daughters, fiction
  • fiction
  • fictional works
  • fiction, family life, general
  • incest
  • inheritance and succession
  • iowa, fiction
  • large type books
  • national book critics circle award winner
  • open_syllabus_project
  • parent and adult child
  • parent-child relationship
  • sexual child abuse
  • sisters
  • sisters, fiction