A Thousand Acres

Signed by Smiley at title page. Second Printing before Publication. Dust jacket unclipped. Unmarked, unread. 8vo, 371 pp., notes with blanks [3]. Fine/Fine. A dark and powerful contemporary reworking of Shakespeare’s King Lear, set on a thousand-acre Iowa farm. When an aging farmer transfers his property to his three daughters, long-suppressed family tensions and secrets emerge, exposing the destructive consequences of resentment, memory, and betrayal. The novel won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.