Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres: A Reader's Guide
Susan Elizabeth Farrell
In A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley transplants the tragedy of King Lear to the Cook family farm in Zebulon County, Iowa, in 1979. The Lear story is retold through the eyes of Lear's oldest daughter, Goneril, who, in the Shakespeare play, is oneĀ ...