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A Thousand Acres Full Book Summary. The Cook, Clark, and Ericson families live on farms in Zebulon County, Iowa. When Jess Clark returns after a long absence, his father Harold throws a pig roast, attended by Jess’s brother Loren and widower Larry Cook and his family. Larry has three daughters: Ginny, married to Ty; Rose, married to Pete; and ...
A Thousand Acres. Jane Smiley. Ballantine Books, 1992 - Fiction - 371 pages. "BRILLIANT . . . A THRILLING WORK OF ART". --Chicago Sun-Times. When Larry Cook, the aging patriarch of a rich, thriving farm in Iowa, decides to retire, he offers his land to his three daughters. For Ginny and Rose, who live on the farm with their husbands, the gift ...
A Thousand Acres is the powerful, mythic story of an American farm family and the land that nourishes and consumes its members. Three daughters and their husbands are pulled into a tangle of love, jealousy, and fear when their father, Larry Cook, grows too old to manage the family's fertile thousand-acre farm.
A Thousand Acres (1997) Movie Info Synopsis A patriarch (Jason Robards) deeds his farm to two (Michelle Pfeiffer, Jessica Lange) of his three daughters in a modern "King Lear" set in the U.S. Midwest.
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2 de dez. de 2003 · Jane Smiley. Jane Smiley (born September 26, 1949) is an American novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992 for her novel A Thousand Acres (1991). Born in Los Angeles, California, Smiley grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, and graduated from Community School and from John Burroughs School.
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A Thousand Acres is a 1997 American drama film directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse and starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Jessica Lange, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jason Robards. It is an adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Jane Smiley, which itself is a reworking of William Shakespeare's King Lear.
A classic story of contemporary American life, A THOUSAND ACRES strikes at the very heart of what it means to be a father, a daughter, a family."While she has written beautifully about families in all of her seven preceding books, [this] effort is her best: a family portrait that is also a near-epic investigation into the broad landscape, the thousand dark acres, of the human heart".--The ...
