As you ll see in this candid conversation smiley was honored to receive a pulitzer prize in fiction for her novel a thousand acres.

Jane smiley a thousand acres background. She was pleased that the book which she based on king lear. Author interviews book reviews and lively book commentary are found here. The novel is highly acclaimed having won the 1992 pulitzer prize for fiction as well as the 1991 national book critics circle award for fiction. Larry cook is a prominent midwestern farmer with three daughters ginny the eldest and the narrator of the novel rose and caroline the youngest ginny is married to ty a farmer rose is married to pete a musician from another state and caroline the only one of the three daughters who attended college is soon to be married to frank rose and ginny live on their father s land while.

She tells the story via the lives of three daughters of a third generation farming family in iowa in the 1970 s. Some luck early warning and golden age she is also the author of several works of nonfiction and books for young adults. A thousand acres is a novel that was published in 1991 that was written by jane smiley. Plain spoken and placed a thousand acres begins.

Written in 1991 jane smiley s pulitzer winning a thousand acres pretends to be about the death of the american farm but if i ve ever read a book richer in subtext i cannot recall it. Jane smiley is the author of numerous novels including a thousand acres which was awarded the pulitzer prize and most recently the last hundred years trilogy. A member of the american academy of arts and letters she has also received the pen center usa lifetime. It won the 1992 pulitzer prize for fiction the national book critics circle award for fiction in 1991 and was adapted to a 1997 film of the same name.

In addition the book was made into a film in 1997 with the same name a thousand acres.

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