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Book Review of A Thousand Acres

A Thousand Acres
A Thousand Acres
Author: Jane Smiley
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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Helpful Score: 1


Jane Smile has set her rich, dramatic novel in the farmlands, featuring an American family whose wealth cannot stay the hand of tragedy. It is the intense, compelling story of a father and his daughters, of sisters, wives and husbands and of the human cost of a lifetime spent trying to subdue the land and the passions it stirs.