A Thousand AcresWinner of the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction and the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. A Thousand Acres retells Shakespear's King Lear. It is set on a 1000 acres family farm in Iowa. The story is told through the oldest daughter's point of view. Smiley writing in this book raises tension at times to almost unbearable but always credible extremes. In the process, she raises profound questions about human conduct and moral