· Written in , 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. She tells the story via the lives of three daughters of a third generation farming family in Iowa in the ’s/5. A Thousand Acres Summary. Larry Cook is a prominent Midwestern farmer with three daughters, Ginny (the eldest, and the narrator of the novel), Rose, and Caroline, the youngest. Ginny is married to Ty, a farmer, Rose is married to Pete, a musician from another state, and Caroline, the only one of the three daughters who attended college, is soon to be married to Frank. Jane Smiley (born Septem) is an American novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in for her novel A Thousand Acres (). Born in Los Angeles, California, Smiley grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, and graduated from Cited by:
A Thousand Acres By Jane Smiley pages. Alfred A. Knopf. $ Does this sound familiar? At the opening of Jane Smiley's latest novel, "A Thousand Acres," the narrator, a woman named Virginia. A Thousand Acres Summary. Next. Book 1, Chapter 1. Larry Cook is a prominent Midwestern farmer with three daughters, Ginny (the eldest, and the narrator of the novel), Rose, and Caroline, the youngest. Ginny is married to Ty, a farmer, Rose is married to Pete, a musician from another state, and Caroline, the only one of the three daughters who. Jane Smiley (born Septem) is an American novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in for her novel A Thousand Acres (). Biography. Born in Los Angeles, California, Smiley grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, and graduated from.
A Thousand Acres is a novel by American author Jane Smiley. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction in and was adapted to a film of the same name. Book Review: A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley () Aug 1yearonehundredbooks. Review # Larry Cook has decided to retire and turn his three-generation Iowa farm over to his three daughters. When the youngest daughter, Caroline, does not react with what he deems to be the appropriate enthusiasm, Larry cuts her out of the deal. Jane Smiley (born Septem) is an American novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in for her novel A Thousand Acres (). 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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