A thousand acres, Jane Smiley
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A thousand acres, Jane Smiley
Language
eng
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no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
A thousand acres
Oclc number
23941156
Responsibility statement
Jane Smiley
Summary
Promotional material intended for booksellers: 2 separately bound excerpts issued in a slipcaseThe 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
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- Farm life -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Aging parents
- Fathers and daughters -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Fathers and daughters
- Farm life
- Inheritance and succession -- Fiction
- Parent and adult child -- Fiction
- Aging parents -- Fiction
- Family farms
- Inheritance and succession
- Sisters
- Parent and adult child
- Sisters -- Fiction
- Iowa -- Fiction
- Iowa
- Family farms -- Fiction
- Allegories
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- Classification1
- Creator1
- Genre3
- Subject19
- Farm life -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Aging parents
- Fathers and daughters -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Fathers and daughters
- Farm life
- Inheritance and succession -- Fiction
- Parent and adult child -- Fiction
- Aging parents -- Fiction
- Family farms
- Inheritance and succession
- Sisters
- Parent and adult child
- Sisters -- Fiction
- Iowa -- Fiction
- Iowa
- Family farms -- Fiction
- Allegories
- Content1
- Other version1
- Mapped to1