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A well written book. It gives a dark picture of human nature. It portrays mankind as self-centered, manipulative, and vengeful. The worldview of this book would definitely be that men and women are basically sinful. Not a book for those looking for a "feel good" piece of literature.
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My favorite book of all time. Just remember that it is a story of incest and how two sisters deal with it.
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Very sad, but a wonderful book.
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Jane Smilie is a talented and captivating writer. This novel, which sometimes parody's the tragedy of Shakespeare's King Lear, is also a wonderfully placed in the landscape of earthy Iowa.

Leslie B. (
Les) wrote on 1/2/2007...
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wasn't this book made into a movie? i seem to remember this story line. the movie was good. different but good . . .
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Pullitzer prize winning author - this is another story about families. A thousand acres,a piece of land and the dramatic novel of an American family whose wealth cannot stay the hand of tragedy.

Dianne A. (
Seastar) wrote on 11/25/2006...
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Classic story of contemporary American life. Wealth, in a thousand acres of land cannot stay the hand of tragedy. A story of sisters, daughters, wives, and husbands, and the father. Set in the midwest, it explores the dual nature of every character. Pulitzer prize winner.
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A story of contemporary American life. The losing of a mid-west farm and how it affects each family member differently. Moving story.
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An intense, compelling story of a father and his daughters, of sisters, of wives and husbands, and their efforts to keep their family and land together. A powerful and haunting story.
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Jane Smile has set her rich, dramatic novel in the farmlands, featuring an American family whose wealth cannot stay the hand of tragedy. It is the intense, compelling story of a father and his daughters, of sisters, wives and husbands and of the human cost of a lifetime spent trying to subdue the land and the passions it stirs.