Thousand Acres

Description:

This powerful twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare’s *King Lear* centers on a wealthy Iowa farmer who 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. Ambitiously conceived and stunningly written, *A Thousand Acres* takes on themes of truth, justice, love, and pride—and reveals the beautiful yet treacherous topography of humanity.

subjects: Fiction,  Family farms,  Parent and adult child,  Fathers and daughters,  Inheritance and succession,  Aging parents,  Sisters,  Farm life,  National Book Critics Circle Award Winner,  award:national_book_critics_circle_award=1991,  award:national_book_critics_circle_award=fiction,  Incest,  Sexual Child Abuse,  Fictional Works,  Father-Child Relations,  Family Relations,  Amerikansk skønlitteratur,  open_syllabus_project,  Child Abuse, Sexual,  Father-daughter relationship,  Parent-child relationship,  Domestic fiction,  Large type books,  Fathers and daughters, fiction,  Iowa, fiction,  Fiction, family life, general,  Sisters, fiction

Places: Iowa