Gripping family drama set in the Great Plains. The towering figure
of the three Cook sisters' father gradually topples, which results
in the division, then loss, of the thousand acres of farmland that
has sustained three generations and causes the family skeletons to
rise from the fields. Ginny and Rose between them brought up their
sister Caroline, who became a lawyer while the elder sisters
married and stayed on the farm. In a Lear-like scenario, complete
with storm, Caroline is cut off by Daddy but later turns the senile
old man against the other two. Sibling rivalry, incest, patriarchy,
love, ingratitude and responsibility add up to a Pulitzer
Prize-winning effort. And this intense, intelligent novel also
raises questions of modern agricultural practice, pollution and
pacifism. (Kirkus UK)
The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling novel from one of America's
greatest contemporary writers. 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 of America's
highest literary awards, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the
National Book Critics' Circle Award.
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