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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 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. 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 ...
2 de dic. de 2003 · JANE SMILEY is the author of numerous novels, including A Thousand Acres, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, and most recently, Golden Age, the concluding volume of The Last Hundred Years trilogy. She is also the author of five works of nonfiction and a series of books for young adults. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters ...
Pulitzer On The Road. Prize Winners. The 1992Pulitzer Prize Winnerin Fiction. For distinguished fiction published in book form during the year by an American author, preferably dealing with American life, Three thousand dollars ($3,000). A Thousand Acres, by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf)
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.
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.
