Explorations Read-Aloud: “A Thousand Acres” by Jane Smiley

Every Friday, at 11:00 am, on the library’s YouTube Channel and Facebook Page, the library will stream a brand new recording of local thespian, Joseph Coté reading aloud selections from a wide variety of fascinating and entertaining books of fiction and non-fiction.

For November 7, Coté will read aloud from Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres.

• 1992 PULITZER PRIZE WINNER FOR FICTION
• 1991 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR
  FICTION
• 1997 FILM ADAPTATION
• 1991 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A “powerful and
  poignant” twentieth-century reimagining of
  Shakespeare’s King Lear (The New York Times Book
  Review)

This epic story takes on themes of truth, justice, love, and pride—and centers on a wealthy Iowa farmer who decides to divide his farm between his three daughters. 

When the youngest daughter objects, she is cut out of his will. This sets off a chain of events that brings dark truths to light and explodes long-suppressed emotions. Ambitiously conceived and stunningly written, A Thousand Acres reveals the beautiful yet treacherous topography of humanity.

“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.” —The Washington Post Book World

Click the links to find the library’s YouTube Channel and Facebook Page.

Thoughts to share? Book ideas to suggest?
Contact Joseph at friday-explorations@usa.net