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A Thousand Acres Style
Point of View
A Thousand Acres is told from Ginny's perspective, as she reflects back to events on the rural farm of her youth, trying to find intimations, hints of the memories she regained, the events that came after, and what she had learned and earned, won and lost.
Setting
From the vantage point of the small rise at the intersection of County Road 686 and the Cabot Road, one could take in the expanse of the farm, one of the biggest in Zebulon County, a fictitious county in the real State of Iowa, at the center of the American heartland. Although Ginny shops for groceries in Cabot, takes the girls swimming in Pike, talks to a lawyer in Mason City, most of the novel occurs on the farm itself, primarily in 1979, when Ginny is in her mid 30s. The novel concludes with Ginny working in a St. Paul Minnesota Perkins Restaurant. By...
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