A Thousand Acres

Resumen del libro

Larry Cooks 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 Shakespeares original and subtly transforms it. This astonishing novel won both of Americas highest literary awards, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Biografía del autor

(Los Ángeles, 1949) es autora de una veintena de obras de ficción y ensayo. Recibió el Premio Pulitzer de narrativa y el National Book Critics Circle Award por su novela Heredarás la tierra (1991). Entre otras obras, ha publicado The Greenlanders (1988), La edad del desconsuelo (1987; Sexto Piso, 2019) y, en los últimos años, la trilogía formada por Some Luck (2014), Early Warning (2015) y Golden Age (2015).