TY - BOOK AU - Smiley, Jane, TI - A Thousand Acres SN - 1841593826 PY - 2017/// CY - New York PB - Everyman's Library KW - Family farms KW - Fiction KW - Sisters KW - Fathers and daughters KW - United States KW - Social conditions N2 - This powerful twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare's King Lear centers on a wealthy Iowa farmer who decides to divide his farm among his three daughters. When the youngest objects, she is cut out of his will, which sets in motion a chain of events that brings dark truths to light. Ambitiously conceived and stunningly written, A Thousand Acres spins the most fundamental themes of truth, justice, love, and pride into a universally acclaimed masterpiece ER -