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Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Jane Smiley's spellbinding novel also headed best-seller lists for many months. A Thousand Acres is the powerful, mythic story of an American farm family and the land that nourishes and consumes its members. Three daughters and their husbands are pulled into a tangle of love, jealousy, and fear when their father, Larry Cook, grows too old to manage the family's fertile thousand acre farm. As each couple struggles with their own tragedies and challenges, they know their father is judging them in light of the weighty inheritance that hovers within their reach. The Cook family, and the farm community around them, are part of a mosaic that is as enduring as the fences and fields of the broad midwestern landscape. But this endurance exacts an immense price from them in return. You will find that this nationally-acclaimed, breathtaking story, in a stirring narration by C.J. Critt, is an unforgettable listening experience.

About the Author :
Jane Smiley is the author of numerous novels, including A Thousand Acres, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, as well of works of nonfiction and books for young adults. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she has also received the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature as well as the Robert Kirch Award for Lifetime Achievement. In 2001 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. C. J. Critt is an actress, author, and popular audiobook narrator. She has performed on and off Broadway and frequently leads creative workshops.

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"A family portrait that is also a near-epic investigation into the broad landscape, the thousand dark acres of the human heart...The book has all the stark brutality of a Shakespearean tragedy."

-- "Washington Post Book World "

"A full, commanding novel...A story bound and tethered to a lonely road in the Midwest, but drawn from a universal source...Profoundly American."

-- "Boston Globe"

"Absorbing...Exhilarating...An engrossing piece of fiction."

-- "Time "

"Brilliant...Absorbing...A thrilling work of art."

-- "Chicago Sun-Times "

"It has been a long time since a novel so surprised me with its power to haunt...A Thousand Acres [has] the prismatic quality of the greatest art."

-- "Chicago Tribune "

"Powerful and poignant."

-- "New York Times Book Review "

"Smiley lovingly creates an idyllic world of family farm life in Iowa in 1979...Not to be missed."

-- "Library Journal"

"Smiley's novel of family life on an insular Iowa farm raises profound questions about human conduct and moral responsibility."

-- "Publishers Weekly"

"Superb...There seems to be nothing Smiley can't write about fabulously well."

-- "San Francisco Chronicle "


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781664535299
  • Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
  • Publisher Imprint: Recorded Books, Inc.
  • Edition: Unabridged edition
  • ISBN-10: 1664535292
  • Publisher Date: 29 Aug 1996
  • Binding: CD-Audio
  • Language: English


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