Jane Smiley (Goodreads Author). 3.81 · Rating details · 64,776 ratings · 3,163 reviews. Aging Larry Cook announces his intention to turn over his 1,000-acre A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley. Brief introduction to the author and her works. Jane Smiley was born in Los Angeles, but grew up in Missouri. Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres is a tale of the people and tensions behind big agribusiness of Zebulon County, an Anytown in the American Midwest. A thousand acres is a 1991 novel by the American author Jane Smiley. He won the 1992 Pulitzer award for Fiction, the National Book Award Critics CerrriculPDF | This article blurs the boundaries of literature, agriculture, Jane Smiley notes that her novel A Thousand Acres was “precipitated” by “a few [PDF] Download A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley Download PDF, ePub, MOBI, Kindle This powerful twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare’s King