EPISODE · Apr 1, 2008 · 26 MIN

Jane Smiley

from World Book Club · host BBC World Service

Best-selling American author Jane Smiley discusses A Thousand Acres, her ambitious re-imagining of Shakespeare's King Lear transposed onto an Iowan farmstead, which won the Pulitzer Prize.

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