false <![CDATA[A Thousand Acres: A Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169585027m/41193.jpg 41193 27 Aging Larry Cook announces his intention to turn over his 1,000-acre farm--one of the largest in Zebulon County, Iowa--to his three daughters, Caroline, Ginny and Rose. A man of harsh sensibilities, he carves Caroline out of the deal because she has the nerve to be less than enthusiastic about her father's generosity. While Larry Cook deteriorates into a pathetic drunk, his daughters are left to cope with the often grim realities of life on a family farm--from battering husbands to cutthroat lenders. In this winner of the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, Smiley captures the essence of such a life with stark, painful detail. 2234336 1991 A Thousand Acres: A Novel total:5760|5:1086|4:2087|3:1736|2:642|1:209| 5760 20480 7311 584 5 7 false false Wed Feb 28 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Aug 19 18:23:35 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 19 18:26:13 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 5 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Feb 24 09:53:08 -0800 2008 Fri Jun 27 19:22:20 -0700 2008
Based on the rough plot of King Lear, yes, which is objectively the worst of Shakespeare's plays and that should say something. This book i...more...]]> 4 5 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 19 18:56:55 -0800 2007 Sat Jan 05 13:18:01 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 3 false false Thu Oct 04 15:24:48 -0700 2007 Sun Nov 18 08:01:32 -0800 2007
Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres, (Harper Perennial, London, 2004)

This is an interesting novel, to say the least. I came to it with prejudice, I must admit, as it's a reworking of Shakespeare's King Lear, a play that I love and that I'm currently working on for my dissertation....more...]]> 2 2 false false Wed May 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 06 15:02:22 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 10:03:00 -0700 2009
A Thousand Acres, told from the middle of three da...more...]]> 3 3 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1994 Fri Sep 26 09:14:42 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 26 09:19:59 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Sun Jun 08 17:45:33 -0700 2008 Fri May 30 19:21:52 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 08 17:45:33 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 3 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 22 05:21:28 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 22 07:06:40 -0700 2008
This story involves a Iowa farm family (3 daughters with their husbands and their overbearing, stubborn, old school father). Their farm is their life (with the exception of one daughter, Carolin...more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Nov 02 06:50:09 -0700 2007 Fri Nov 02 07:00:38 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Sep 01 19:53:29 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 01 19:53:59 -0700 2007
Awards -
Pulitzer Prize Winner

Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Jane Smiley’s spellbinding novel also headed best-seller lists for many months. A Thousand Acres is the powerful, mythic story of an Amer...more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2000 Wed Aug 15 08:36:54 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 15 08:54:08 -0700 2007 King Lear is a powerful story of anger, redemption and guilt. Smiley's plot follows Shakespeare's closely: Larry Cook is an Iowa patriarch who decides to divide his farm among his three daughters: Ginny, Rose and Caroline. Problems arise immediately when C...more...]]> 2 2 false false Wed Mar 12 16:44:30 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 12 16:44:30 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Nov 15 19:20:32 -0800 2007 Tue Dec 04 17:54:12 -0800 2007
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