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A father in Iowa is proud and possessive about his farm. He surprisingly decides to retire and hand it over to his three daughters. The two eldest are eager to get it, but the youngest hesitates, and when she does, her father cuts her out. This is the King Lear story transposed to the present day. From the back cover: "...in doing so, [it] at once illuminates Shakespeare's original and subtly transforms it. This astonishing novel won both America's highest literary awards, the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the National Book Critics' Circle Award."
