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...
The only hardcover edition of Jane Smiley's most famous novel-- King Lear on an Iowa farm--which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY CONTEMPORARY CLASSICS. With a new introduction. This powerful twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare's King Lear centers on...
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - The only hardcover edition of the "powerful and poignant" (The New York Times Book Review) twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare's King Lear - With a new introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallett - EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY CONTEMPORARY CLASSICS
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A successful Iowa farmer decides to divide his farm between his three daughters. When the youngest objects, she is cut out of his will. This sets off a chain of events that brings dark truths to light and explodes long-suppressed emotions. An ambitious reimagining of Shakespeare's...
A thousand acres, a piece of land of almost mythic proportions. Upon this fertile, nourishing earth, Jane Smiley has set her rich, breathtakingly dramatic novel of an American family whose wealth cannot stay the hand of tragedy. It is the intense, compelling story of a father...