A Thousand Acres
by Jane Smiley
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394577736
- ISBN 13
- 9780394577739
- Seller
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Walcott, Iowa, United States
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Synopsis
A Thousand Acres is a 1991 novel by American author Jane Smiley. It won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was adapted to a 1997 film of the same name. The novel is a contemporary deconstruction of Shakespeare's King Lear and is set on a thousand acre (4 km²) farm in Iowa that is owned by a family of a father and his three daughters. It is told through the point of view of the oldest daughter, Ginny.
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- Bookseller
- Lamplighter Library (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 80
- Title
- A Thousand Acres
- Author
- Jane Smiley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- ISBN 10
- 0394577736
- ISBN 13
- 9780394577739
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1991
- Pages
- 371
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- Iowa, farm,father
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