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A Thousand Acres

(1991)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
1992 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (nominee)
1992 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
1991 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

On a prospering Iowa farm in the 1970s, wealthy farmer Lawrence Cook announces his intentions to divide the farm among his daughters, setting off a family crisis reminiscent of Shakespeare's "King Lear."


Genre: Literary Fiction

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