A Thousand Acres

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Larry Cook's 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 Shakespeare's original and subtly transforms it This astonishing novel won both America's highest literary awards, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics' Circle Award,
'A Thousand Acres is a strong, gnarled shocker of a novel - superb. Its success is down to Smiley's 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... Tovább

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Larry Cook's 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 Shakespeare's original and subtly transforms it This astonishing novel won both America's highest literary awards, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics' Circle Award,
'A Thousand Acres is a strong, gnarled shocker of a novel - superb. Its success is down to Smiley's 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.' Tom Shone, Sunday Times
'A Thousand Acres is a great American tragedy about the failure of a family's land and the failure of its love. There may have been better novels than A Thousand Acres, but I fear I didn't read them - a haunting inquisition into the decline and fall of a family.' Anthony Quinn, Independent
'Smiley's singular gift is the grace with which she can move up through the literary gears to imbue her long, gripping multi-layered narrative with real grandeur and moral seriousness. The novel's emotional power comes from the accretion of piercingly good small things.' Candice Rodd, Independent on Sunday
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