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A thousand acres
by Smiley, Jane
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Extremely mild rubbing to spine head and foot, extremey faint soiling to front free endpaper, exceedingly gentle rubbing to corn
- ISBN 10
- 0394577736
- ISBN 13
- 9780394577739
- Seller
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Oakland, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Knopf, Distributed by Random House, 1992. First ed., 8th printing. Hardcover. Extremely mild rubbing to spine head and foot, extremey faint soiling to front free endpaper, exceedingly gentle rubbing to corners, faint soiling to fore-edge and rear DJ, pristine, bright pages in tight binding, extremely mild wear to DJ spine head, exceedingly gentle rubbing to DJ corners, else Near Fine(+) to Fine in Near Fine(+) to Fine DJ.. Octavo in red DJ, deckle edges, 371 pages, 24 cm. Inscribed and signed by author to title page. || The time is 1979. Larry Cook, a proud and exacting farmer, whose family has lived on this land for four generations, unexpectedly decides to retire and turn over his valuable holdings to his three daughters. For Ginny and Rose, who live on the farm with their husbands, the gift makes sense - a reward for years of hard work, a challenge to make the farm even more successful. But the youngest, Caroline, a Des Moines lawyer, flatly rejects the idea, and in anger her father cuts her out - setting off an explosive series of events that will leave none of them unchanged. A classic story of contemporary American life, A Thousand Acres strikes at the very heart of what it means to be a father, a daughter, a family. Inheritance and succession, Parent and adult child -- Fiction.
Synopsis
A Thousand Acres is a 1991 novel by American author Jane Smiley. It won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was adapted to a 1997 film of the same name. The novel is a contemporary deconstruction of Shakespeare's King Lear and is set on a thousand acre (4 km²) farm in Iowa that is owned by a family of a father and his three daughters. It is told through the point of view of the oldest daughter, Ginny.
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- Bookseller
- Bibliope by Calvello Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 91753
- Title
- A thousand acres
- Author
- Smiley, Jane
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Extremely mild rubbing to spine head and foot, extremey faint soiling to front free endpaper, exceedingly gentle rubbing to corn
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First ed., 8th printing
- ISBN 10
- 0394577736
- ISBN 13
- 9780394577739
- Publisher
- Knopf, Distributed by Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1992
- Bookseller catalogs
- Novels;
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About the Seller
Bibliope by Calvello Books
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About Bibliope by Calvello Books
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