- Fiction, Family farms, Parent and adult child, Fathers and daughters
This powerful twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare’s *King Lear* centers on a wealthy Iowa farmer who decides to divide his farm between his three daughters. When the youngest objects, she is cut out of his will.
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Grave, contemporary, earnest and overwhelming.
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Jane Smiley
- First published
- 1991
- Pages
- 378
- Publisher
- Thorndike Press, Brand: Recorded Books, Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780606302586
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“AT SIXTY MILES per hour, you could pass our farm in a minute, on County Road 686, which ran due north into the T intersection at Cabot Street Road.”
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