![]() ![]() The book has all the stark brutality of a Shakespearean tragedy." - The Washington Post Book World ![]() "A family portrait that is also a near-epic investigation into the broad landscape, the thousand dark acres of the human heart. ![]() Ambitiously conceived and stunningly written, A Thousand Acres reveals the beautiful yet treacherous topography of humanity. This sets off a chain of events that brings dark truths to light and explodes long-suppressed emotions. When the youngest daughter objects, she is cut out of his will. Book Synopsis 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. ![]()
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