'''''A Thousand Acres''''' is a 1991 novel by American author Jane Smiley. It won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was adapted to film in 1997.

The novel is a reworking of Shakespeare's ''King Lear'', set on a thousand acre (4 km²) farm in Iowa.

Plot

Larry Cook is an aging farmer who decides to divi...(continue reading)