TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smiley,Jane
TI  - A Thousand Acres
U1  - F SMI 
PY  - 1992///
CY  - New York
PB  - Fawcett Columbine
KW  - Shakespeare, William,
KW  - Family farms
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Sisters
KW  - Farm life
KW  - Inheritance and succession
KW  - Fathers and daughters
KW  - Iowa
KW  - Large type books
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - FICTION / General
N1  - This large print book has been produced for print impaired students by the Resource Services Library, W. Ross Macdonald School, 350 Brant Avenue, Brantford Ontario, N3T 3J9. It may be returned to the Resource Services Library by mail, at no cost, if marked “Materials for the blind - post-free”.

; Adult / General; This work in alternate format is reproduced with the permission of the Canadian Reprography Collection. The books are financed by the Ministry of Education, Ontario and are lent without charge to visually handicapped students.


N2  - A successful Iowa farmer decides to divide his farm between his three daughters. When the youngest objects, she is cut out of his will. This sets off a chain of events that brings dark truths to light and explodes long-suppressed emotions. An ambitious reimagining of Shakespeare’s King Lear cast in a typical American community in the late twentieth century, A Thousand Acres takes on themes of truth, justice, love, and pride, and reveals the beautiful yet treacherous topography of humanity
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