 Hardcover first edition cover | |
| Author | Jane Smiley |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Domestic Realism |
| Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
Publication date | October 23, 1991 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 367 |
| ISBN | 0-394-57773-6 |
| OCLC | 23941156 |
| 813/.54 20 | |
| LC Class | PS3569.M39 T47 1991 |
A Thousand Acres is a 1991 novel by American author Jane Smiley. 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. It was premiered as an opera by the Des Moines Metro Opera during their 2022 season.
The novel is a modernized retelling of Shakespeare's King Lear and is set on a thousand-acre (four hundred hectares) farm in Iowa owned by a family of a father and his three daughters. It is told through the point of view of the oldest daughter, Ginny.