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Jane smiley a thousand acres background. She was pleased that the book which she based on king lear. She tells the story via the lives of three daughters of a third generation farming family in iowa in the 1970 s. A thousand acres by jane smiley at sixty miles per hour you could pass our farm in a minute on county road 686 which ran due north into the t intersection at cabot street road. A thousand acres is a novel that was published in 1991 that was written by jane smiley.

Plain spoken and placed a thousand acres begins. A site dedicated to book lovers providing a forum to discover and share commentary about the books and authors they enjoy. Written in 1991 jane smiley s pulitzer winning a thousand acres pretends to be about the death of the american farm but if i ve ever read a book richer in subtext i cannot recall it. Some luck early warning and golden age she is also the author of several works of nonfiction and books for young adults.

It won the 1992 pulitzer prize for fiction the national book critics circle award for fiction in 1991 and was adapted to a 1997 film of the same name. In addition the book was made into a film in 1997 with the same name a thousand acres. Jane smiley is the author of numerous novels including a thousand acres which was awarded the pulitzer prize and most recently the last hundred years trilogy. The novel is highly acclaimed having won the 1992 pulitzer prize for fiction as well as the 1991 national book critics circle award for fiction.

A thousand acres is a 1991 novel by american author jane smiley.

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