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
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3383-6
