

A Thousand Acres
Author: Jane Smiley
Narrator: C.J. Critt
Unabridged: 14 hr 48 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 04/25/2008
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Synopsis
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.
“… a near-epic investigation into the broad landscape, the thousand dark acres, of the human heart.”—The Washington Post Book World