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A Thousand Acres is the powerful, mythic story of an American farm family and the land that nourishes and consumes its members. Three daughters and their husbands are pulled into a tangle of love, jealousy, and fear when their father, Larry Cook, grows too old to manage the family's fertile thousand-acre farm.
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 is a 1997 American drama film directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse and starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Jessica Lange, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jason Robards. It is an adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Jane Smiley, which itself is a reworking of William Shakespeare's King Lear. The character of Larry Cook corresponds to the title character of that play ...
Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres, published in 1991, tells the story of the Cook family, who live on the largest farm in Zebulon County, Iowa. It is 1979, and Larry Cook wants to deed his farm to his three daughters, only two of whom care about farming. As the narrative unfolds, dark secrets reveal the main characters, their strengths, and ...
A Thousand Acres is a drama about an American family who meets with tragedy on their land. It is the story of a father, his daughters, and their husbands, and their passion to subdue the history of their land and its stories.
2 de dic. de 2003 · Jane Smiley. Jane Smiley (born September 26, 1949) is an American novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992 for her novel A Thousand Acres (1991). Born in Los Angeles, California, Smiley grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, and graduated from Community School and from John Burroughs School.
A Thousand Acres (1997) Movie Info Synopsis A patriarch (Jason Robards) deeds his farm to two (Michelle Pfeiffer, Jessica Lange) of his three daughters in a modern "King Lear" set in the U.S. Midwest.
