5/28/2023 0 Comments A thousand acres novel![]() ![]() In its solidity and poise, A Thousand Acres is a book that will outlast this year's rainy season.' -Vogue 'Powerful, poignant, intimate and involving. Its style is relaxed, conversational, unhurried the novel flows gently onwards like a broad river. 'I don't know,' says cool lawyer Caroline, and Daddy slams off in a fury. It's at a well-liquored neighborhood social that Daddy announces he's giving up his farm to his three daughters. There may have been better novels than A Thousand Acres, but I fear I didn't read them - a haunting inquisition into the decline and fall of a family.' -Independent 'A studied, ingenious variation on the brutal clashing of sexes and generations in King Lear. Youngest daughter Caroline, whom motherless Rose and Ginny had raised and unfettered from Daddy, is a lawyer in Des Moines. A Thousand Acres is a great American tragedy about the failure of a family's land and the failure of its love. ![]() Its success is down to Smiley's ambitious gusto, her intuitive handling of the relationship between character and landscape, and her willingness to haul genuine moral freight across the panorama she has so expertly painted.' -Sunday Times 'Epic fiction of the very highest order, naturalistic, penetrating and wholly absorbing.' -Literary Review 'Superlative, extraordinary, amazing. Remember that the dust jacket is an important part of any book, and so books without their original dust jackets typically have less value. ![]() ![]() A Thousand Acres is a strong, gnarled shocker of a novel. ![]()
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