PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • The only hardcover edition of the “powerful and poignant” (The New York Times Book Review) twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare’s King Lear • With a new introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallett • EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY CONTEMPORARY CLASSICS
This powerful novel centers on a wealthy Iowa farmer who decides to divide his farm among his three daughters. When the youngest objects, she is cut out of his will, which sets in motion a chain of events that brings dark truths to light. Ambitiously conceived and stunningly written, A Thousand Acres spins the most fundamental themes of truth, justice, love, and pride into a universally acclaimed masterpiece.
Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.
- ISBN10 1101907967
- ISBN13 9781101907962
- Publish Date 27 February 2018 (first published 28 March 2011)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Random House USA Inc
- Imprint Everyman's Library USA
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 456
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9781101907962