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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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Pulitzer Prize winning novel, loosely based on King Lear, set in the American Midwest; a story of love, jealousy,family dysfunction, greed, miserliness, and the amassing of a huge industrial farm and at least one plot.