Saturday, July 15, 2006

A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

This may be the best Pulitzer winner I have read. I'm up to sixteen now, the latest ones for the most part. This novel is as good as "To Kill A Mockingbird", I think.

It starts slow, a retelling of the King Lear story, but there are plenty of foreshadowings of things to come. And they do come, unexpected twists that kept me guessing and reading. All the way through I was marvelling at how well constructed the novel is. Much planning and a lot of hard work went into this book. Highly recommended.

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