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Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (1991, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100394577736
ISBN-139780394577739
eBay Product ID (ePID)385722
Product Key Features
Book TitleThousand Acres
Number of Pages371 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1991
TopicFamily Life, General
GenreFiction
AuthorJane Smiley
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight27.3 Oz
Item Length9.4 in
Item Width6.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN91-052720
TitleLeadingA
Dewey Edition22
Reviews"Brilliant. . . . Absorbing. . . . A thrilling work of art." -Chicago Sun-Times "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 "Powerful and poignant." -The New York Times Book Review "Superb. . . . There seems to be nothing Smiley can't write about fabulously well." -San Francisco Chronicle "It has been a long time since a novel so surprised me with its power to haunt. . . .A Thousand Acres[has] the prismatic quality of the greatest art." -Chicago Tribune "Absorbing. . . . Exhilarating. . . . An engrossing piece of fiction." -Time "A full, commanding novel. . . . A story bound and tethered to a lonely road in the Midwest, but drawn from a universal source. . . . Profoundly American." -The Boston Globe From the Trade Paperback edition.
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisA thousand acres, a piece of land of almost mythic proportions. Upon this fertile, nourishing earth, Jane Smiley has set her rich, breathtakingly dramatic novel of an American family whose wealth cannot stay the hand of tragedy. It is the intense, compelling story of a father and his daughters, of sisters, of wives and husbands, and of the human cost of a lifetime spent trying to subdue the land and the passions it stirs. The most critically acclaimed novel of the literary season, a classic story of contemporary American life, A THOUSAND ACRES is destined to be read for years to come. "It has been a long time since a novel so surprised me with its power to haunt . . . . Its genius grows from its ruthless acceptance of the divided nature of every character . . . . This gives A THOUSAND ACRES the prismatic quality of the greatest art." -- Chicago Tribune Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award From the Trade Paperback edition.
LC Classification NumberPS3569.M39T47 1991
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- Jan 19, 2021
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Next on my reading list after hearing such great things about the novel.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
