Can I read A Thousand Acres on EtoBox?

A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is A Thousand Acres about?

This powerful twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare’s King Lear centres 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."In her Pulitzer Prize-winning 1991 novel, Smiley paints an "American Gothic" family portrait, but her palette is hardly limited to black and blue: the umber corduroy of the furrowed fields, the sun on the bedroom sheers, even the Quaker gray of the asphalt that bisects the Cook family farm." - Rita Kempley, The Washington PostJane Smiley is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist. She published her first novel, Barn Blind, in 1980, and won a 1985 O. Henry Award for her short story "Lily", which was published in The Atlantic Monthly. Her best-selling A Thousand Acres, a story based on William Shakespeare's King Lear, received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992.

Who reads A Thousand Acres?

Author

Jane Smiley

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

1991

Language

EN

ISBN

9781400033836

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, American Fiction

Rating

3.79 / 5 (280 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13