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A Thousand Acres

Door Jane Smiley

Categorie
Engels
Boeknummer
#214109
Titel
A Thousand Acres
Auteur
Smiley, Jane
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Flamingo
Jaar van uitgave
1992
ISBN10
0006544827
ISBN13
9780006544821
Taal
Engels
Samenvatting
The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling novel from one of America's greatest contemporary writers. Larry Cook's farm is the largest in Zebulon County, Iowa, and a tribute to his hard work and single-mindedness. Proud and possessive, his sudden decision to retire and hand over the farm to his three daughters, is disarmingly uncharacteristic. Ginny and Rose, the two eldest, are startled yet eager to accept, but Caroline, the youngest daughter, has misgivings. Immediately, her father cuts her out. In A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley transposes the King Lear story to the modern day, and in so doing at once illuminates Shakespeare's original and subtly transforms it. This astonishing novel won both of America's highest literary awards, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics' ... (Lees verder)Circle Award.
Pagina's
371
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 5,00

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