A Thousand Acres (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

ISBN-13:	9781400033836
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	12/02/2003
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	384
Sales rank:	31,360
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.81(d)
Lexile:	HL930L (what's this?)

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A "powerful and poignant" twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare’s King Lear (The New York Times Book Review) that takes on themes of truth, justice, love, and pride—and centers on a wealthy Iowa farmer who decides to divide his farm between his three daughters.  When the youngest daughter 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 reveals the beautiful yet treacherous topography of humanity.“A family portrait that is also a near-epic investigation into the broad landscape, the thousand dark acres of the human heart.... The book has all the stark brutality of a Shakespearean tragedy.” —The Washington Post Book World