A Thousand Acres
by Jane Smiley
Buy on AmazonA Thousand Acres is a 1991 novel by American author Jane Smiley. It won the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the 1992 Ambassador Book Award for Fiction, and was adapted to a 1997 film of the same name. It was premiered as an opera by the Des Moines Metro Opera during their 2022 season.
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"perhaps my all-time favorite novel, “A Thousand Acres,” by Jane Smiley."
By the Book: J. Courtney Sullivan · nytimes.com