TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jane Smiley
TI  - A Thousand Acres
SN  - 9780449907481
AV  - PS3569.M39 
U1  - 813.54 
PB  - Random House Publishing Group
KW  - Literary Fiction
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
ER  -