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A Thousand Acres is designed as a modernization of William Shakespeare’s 1606 play King Lear, sometimes called the greatest play (or even the greatest work of literature) ever written.Almost every major character in the novel has a direct counterpart in King Lear; where Shakespeare tells the story of an elderly king who divides up his kingdom between three daughters, one of whom refuses the ...
A Thousand Acres Summary. Next. Book 1, Chapter 1. Larry Cook is a prominent Midwestern farmer with three daughters, Ginny (the eldest, and the narrator of the novel), Rose, and Caroline, the youngest. Ginny is married to Ty, a farmer, Rose is married to Pete, a musician from another state, and Caroline, the only one of the three daughters who ...
A Thousand Acres. Jane Smiley. Ballantine Books, 1992 - Fiction - 371 pages. "BRILLIANT . . . A THRILLING WORK OF ART". --Chicago Sun-Times. When Larry Cook, the aging patriarch of a rich, thriving farm in Iowa, decides to retire, he offers his land to his three daughters. For Ginny and Rose, who live on the farm with their husbands, the gift ...
A 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 ...
5 de ene. de 2011 · This is a book club review of A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley. Our book club had seven women present who read the book in entirety, ages 31 to 42. This was our 52nd read and our fifth Pulitzer. We rate books on their quality and readability, as well as the discussion they prompt.
A Thousand Acres Full Book Summary. The Cook, Clark, and Ericson families live on farms in Zebulon County, Iowa. When Jess Clark returns after a long absence, his father Harold throws a pig roast, attended by Jess’s brother Loren and widower Larry Cook and his family. Larry has three daughters: Ginny, married to Ty; Rose, married to Pete; and ...
A Thousand Acres es una película de Estados Unidos del año 1997 dirigida por Jocelyn Moorhouse.Se la conoce en castellano con títulos como En busca del destino (en Perú, por ejemplo) y Heredarás la tierra en España.. Argumento. Un viudo del oeste estadounidense decide que ha llegado la hora de repartir sus grandes extensiones de tierra entre sus tres hijas.
