A Thousand Acres

A Thousand Acres

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. The novel is a modernized retelling of Shakespeare's King Lear and is set on a thousand-acre (four hundred hectares) farm in Iowa that is owned by a family of a father and his three daughters. It is told through the point of view of the oldest daughter, Ginny.

Genre: Drama
Production: Beacon Pictures
  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 2 wins.
 
IMDB:
6.0
Rotten Tomatoes:
23%
R
Year:
1997
105
707 Views

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