A Thousand Acres (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Jane Smiley
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism, Family literature
- Subjects: 1970’s, Family or family life, Parents and children, Suicide, Blindness or blind persons, Midwest, 1980’s, Child abuse, Incest, Cancer, Farms, farmers, or farming, Fathers, Adultery, Sisters, Accidents, Tragedy, Heroes or heroism, Environment or environmental health, Draft, military, Poisons or poisoning, Shakespeare, William, or Shakespearean plays
- Locales: Iowa
Smiley has followed her two novellas, ORDINARY LOVE AND GOOD WILL (1989), with another story of a man who extends his possessiveness from things to people. Larry Cook, a successful farmer in his sixties, suddenly decides to form a corporation turning control of his thousand acres over to his daughters. When his youngest daughter, Caroline, opposes this, he disowns her for this sign of willfulness. When the older daughters, Ginny and Rose, with their husbands, begin developing the farm their way, Larry objects and attempts to coerce them emotionally and then to sue them to...
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