A Thousand Acres (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)

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SMILEY, Jane. A Thousand Acres. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2008. Octavo. Full deep blue leather. Spine with four raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. Gilt design, lettering and fore-edges. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 371 pp. Signed Collector's Edition. Part of the Easton Press Signed Modern Classics series. Signed by the author on the special signature page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity and bookplate adhered to front endpaper. Originally published New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. Jane Smiley (b. 1949) was born in Los Angeles and grew up in St. Louis. She took her PhD at the University of Iowa, where she subsequently taught, and has produced a body of work of remarkable range: novels from the medieval Iceland of The Greenlanders (1988) to the contemporary California of the Last Hundred Years trilogy, as well as criticism, memoir, and nonfiction on subjects from horses to Shakespeare. A Thousand Acres won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and remains her best-known novel. The premise is among the most audacious in contemporary American fiction: a transposition of King Lear to a thousand-acre farm in Zebulon County, Iowa, in 1979. Larry Cook is the patriarch — a successful, respected farmer who abruptly announces that he will divide his land among his three daughters. Ginny and Rose, the two elder daughters who have stayed on the farm with their husbands, accept. Carolin

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