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A Thousand Acres A Novel Jane Smiley Genre: Literary Price: $1.99 Publish Date: October 23, 1991 Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Seller: Random House, LLC

A successful Iowa farmer decides to divide his farm between his three daughters. When the youngest objects, she is cut out of his will. This sets off a chain of events that brings dark truths to light and explodes long-suppressed emotions. An ambitious reimagining of Shakespeare’s King Lear cast upon a typical American community in the late twentieth century, A Thousand Acres takes on themes of truth, justice, love, and pride, and reveals the beautiful yet treacherous topography of humanity. From the Trade Paperback edition.

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