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Thousand Acres by Marguerite Duras and Jane Smiley (Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-101841593826
ISBN-139781841593821
eBay Product ID (ePID)27038725238
Product Key Features
Book TitleThousand Acres
Number of Pages456 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicFamily Life, Literary
GenreFiction
AuthorMarguerite Duras, Jane Smiley
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight19.5 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.4 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN2017-052985
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsI still don't know how Smiley did it, the voices in A Thousand Acres are so raw and true, right from the first page. It's as if she has channelled them, rather than invented them. It has Biblical sweep - that broad sense of the epic - but Smiley is poignant on the daily-ness of life, cooking, cleaning and the way one sister feels when she finds she can't have children .
TitleLeadingA
Dewey Decimal813.6
SynopsisThis powerful twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare's King Lear centers on a wealthy Iowa farmer who decides to divide his farm among his three daughters. When the youngest objects, she is cut out of his will, which sets in motion a chain of events that brings dark truths to light. Ambitiously conceived and stunningly written, A Thousand Acres spins the most fundamental themes of truth, justice, love, and pride into a universally acclaimed masterpiece., The only hardcover edition of Jane Smiley's most famous novel-- King Lear on an Iowa farm--which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY CONTEMPORARY CLASSICS. With a new introduction. This powerful twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare's King Lear centers on a wealthy Iowa farmer who decides to divide his farm among his three daughters. When the youngest objects, she is cut out of his will, which sets in motion a chain of events that brings dark truths to light. Ambitiously conceived and stunningly written, A Thousand Acres spins the most fundamental themes of truth, justice, love, and pride into a universally acclaimed masterpiece.
LC Classification NumberPS3569.M39T47 2017
