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Jane smiley a thousand acres background. 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. In addition the book was made into a film in 1997 with the same name a thousand acres. A thousand acres by jane smiley at sixty miles per hour you could pass our farm in a minute on county road 686 which ran due north into the t intersection at cabot street road. Some luck early warning and golden age she is also the author of several works of nonfiction and books for young adults.

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. 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. A thousand acres is a novel that was published in 1991 that was written by jane smiley.

She was pleased that the book which she based on king lear. She tells the story via the lives of three daughters of a third generation farming family in iowa in the 1970 s. As you ll see in this candid conversation smiley was honored to receive a pulitzer prize in fiction for her novel a thousand acres. A thousand acres is a 1991 novel by american author jane smiley.

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