01729cam a2200325 4500 1261857377 TxAuBib 910213s1991||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 91052720 9780394577739 0394577736 (OCoLC)23941156 DLC eng DLC SYB BAKER BTCTA YDXCP ZWZ CTN OCLCQ IQSUL LMR YBM TxAuBib Smiley, Jane. A thousand acres / Jane Smiley. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, 1991. 371 p. ; 24 cm. The time is 1979. Larry Cook, a proud and exacting farmer, whose family has lived on this land for four generations, unexpectedly decides to retire and turn over his valuable holdings to his three daughters. For Ginny and Rose, who live on the farm with their husbands, the gift makes sense - a reward for years of hard work, a challenge to make the farm even more successful. But the youngest, Caroline, a Des Moines lawyer, flatly rejects the idea, and in anger her father cuts her out - setting off an explosive series of events that will leave none of them unchanged. A classic story of contemporary American life, A Thousand Acres strikes at the very heart of what it means to be a father, a daughter, a family. Also issued online. 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. Domestic fiction.