by Jane Smiley · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 0014794007503
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«A Thousand Acres» is the novel by Jane Smiley, published by Ivy Books in 1991 in paperback, in English.
Set on a farm in Iowa, it tells how a father decides to divide his land among his three daughters. That division stirs up old rivalries, leads each sister to confront her past, and brings to light the silences on which the family was built. The work explores power, inheritance and guilt, and portrays rural life in the American Midwest.
It won the Pulitzer Prize, was a The New York Times bestseller and was adapted into a movie. More than one million copies.
Recommended for readers of literary fiction and family drama, particularly for those who enjoy stories set in rural settings and family sagas.
Jane Smiley is an American novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992 for her novel A Thousand Acres (1991).
