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A thousand acres a novel

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Main Author: Smiley, Jane
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Anchor Books, 2003.
Edition:1st Anchor Books ed.
Subjects:
Inheritance and succession > Fiction.
Parent and adult child > Fiction.
Fathers and daughters > Fiction.
Aging parents > Fiction.
Family farms > Fiction.
Farm life > Fiction.
Sisters > Fiction.
Iowa > Fiction.
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Physical Description:371 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:1400033837 (pbk.)
9781400033836 (pbk.)
Author Notes:Jane Smiley was born in Los Angeles, California on September 26, 1949. She received a B. A. from Vassar College in 1971 and an M.F.A. and a Ph.D from the University of Iowa. From 1981 to 1996, she taught undergraduate and graduate creative writing workshops at Iowa State University. Her books include The Age of Grief, The Greenlanders, Moo, Horse Heaven, Ordinary Love and Good Will, Some Luck, and Early Warning. In 1985, she won an O. Henry Award for her short story Lily, which was published in The Atlantic Monthly. A Thousand Acres received both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

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