A Thousand Acres

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2004
Edition: Reprint

Description: 371 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling novel from one of Americas greatest contemporary writers. Larry Cooks farm is the largest in Zebulon County, Iowa, and a tribute to his hard work and single-mindedness. Proud and possessive, his sudden decision to retire and hand over the farm to his three daughters, is disarmingly uncharacteristic.Ginny and Rose, the two eldest, are startled yet eager to accept, but Caroline, the youngest daughter, has misgivings. Immediately, her father cuts her out.In A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley transposes the King Lear story to the modern day, and in so doing at once illuminates Shakespeares original and subtly transforms it. This astonishing novel won both of Americas highest literary awards, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Industry Reviews A Thousand Acres is a strong, gnarled shocker of a novel... superb. Its success is down to Smileys ambitious gusto, her intuitive handling of the relationship between character and landscape, and her willingness to haul genuine moral freight across the panorama she has so expertly painted. Sunday TimesEpic fiction of the very highest order, naturalistic , penetrating and wholly absorbing. Literary ReviewSuperlative, extraordinary, amazing. A Thousand Acres is a great American tragedy about the failure of a familys land and the failure of its love. There may have been better novels than A Thousand Acres, but I fear I didnt read them -- a haunting inquisition into the decline and fall of a family. IndependentA studied, ingenious variation on the brutal clashing of sexes and generations in King Lear. Its style is relaxed, conversational, unhurried; the novel flows gently onwards like a broad river. In its solidity and poise, A Thousand Acres is a book that will outlast this years rainy season. Vogue Powerful, poignant, intimate and involving. New York Times

ISBN: 9780006544821