Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres: A Reader's Guide

by Jane Smiley and Susan Elizabeth Farrell

Continuum Contemporaries will be a wonderful source of ideas and inspiration for members of book clubs and readings groups, as well as for literature students.The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to 30 of the most popular, most acclaimed, and most influential novels of recent years. A team of contemporary fiction scholars from both sides of the Atlantic has been assembled to provide a thorough and readable...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826452353
• ISBN13: 9780826452351
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Good for teachers and students

I teach this novel at a local college, and this book has given me a lot of new angles to take, for which I'm grateful. It's particularly good on the ecological aspects of the novel. The author packs a lot of material into a short space. And I recommend it to my students with the proviso that they don't copy it for their essays.