TY  - BOOK
N2  - 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.
AB  - 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.
T1  - A thousand acres /
DA  - 1996, c1991.
CY  - New York :
AU  - Smiley, Jane.
ET  - 1st Domestic Ballantine Books mass market ed.
CN  - Smiley
PB  - Ivy Books :
PB  - Ballantine Books,
PP  - New York :
PY  - 1996, c1991.
N1  - Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1991.
ID  - 231444
KW  - Family farms
KW  - Fathers and daughters
KW  - Farm life
KW  - Sisters
SN  - 0804115761
TI  - A thousand acres /
ER  -