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Title:
A thousand acres : a novel
Author:
Smiley, Jane.
Personal Author:
Smiley, Jane.
ISBN:
9781400033836
Edition:
1st Anchor Books edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Anchor Books, 2003.
Physical Description:
371 pages ; 24 cm
Abstract:
Larry Cook, an Iowan farmer who has worked a thousand acre plot owned by his family for generations, abruptly decides to leave his farm to his three daughters and retire. His two eldest daughters are pleased with the decision but his youngest daughter has been cut out by her father and is angry. As the daughters' activity on the land progresses, they notice a change in their father. Events begin to unfold that will threaten and destroy the family and their farm.
Subject Term:
Inheritance and succession -- Fiction.

Parent and adult child -- Fiction.

Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.

Aging parents -- Fiction.

Family farms -- Fiction.

Farm life -- Fiction.

Sisters -- Fiction.
Geographic Term:
Iowa -- Fiction.
Genre:
Domestic fiction.
Summary:
Larry Cook, an Iowan farmer who has worked a thousand acre plot owned by his family for generations, abruptly decides to leave his farm to his three daughters and retire. His two eldest daughters are pleased with the decision but his youngest daughter has been cut out by her father and is angry. As the daughters' activity on the land progresses, they notice a change in their father. Events begin to unfold that will threaten and destroy the family and their farm.
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