A Thousand Acres - Softcover

Smiley, Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0006544827 ISBN 13: 9780006544821

Verlag: Fawcett Columbine, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jane Smiley was born in LA, grew up in St Louis and studied at Vassar and Iowa. She won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Award in 1992 for ‘A Thousand Acres’.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Fawcett Columbine
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0006544827
• ISBN 13: 9780006544821
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 398
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