A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and Luck
Jane Smiley$15.30
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres comes an irresistibly smart, witty, and engaging chronicle of a novelist's lifelong obsession with horses. - "Exuberant...witty, completely delightful.... A kind of National Velvet for adults." --San Francisco Chronicle
"Every horse story is a love story," writes Jane Smiley, who has loved horses for most of her life and owned and bred them for a good part of it. To love something is to observe it with more than usual attention, and that is precisely what Smiley does in this In particular she follows a sexy filly named Waterwheel and a grey named Wowie (he "tells" a horse communicator that he wants it changed from Hornblower) as they begin careers at the racetrack. Filled with humor and suspense, and with discourses on equine intelligence, affection, and character, A Year at the Races is a winner.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 06/01/2005
ISBN: 9781400033171
Pages: 287
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.08h x 5.24w x 0.64d
Review Citations: Ingram Advance 06/01/2005 pg. 123
New York Times 05/22/2005 pg. 32
Kliatt 09/01/2005 pg. 43
"Every horse story is a love story," writes Jane Smiley, who has loved horses for most of her life and owned and bred them for a good part of it. To love something is to observe it with more than usual attention, and that is precisely what Smiley does in this In particular she follows a sexy filly named Waterwheel and a grey named Wowie (he "tells" a horse communicator that he wants it changed from Hornblower) as they begin careers at the racetrack. Filled with humor and suspense, and with discourses on equine intelligence, affection, and character, A Year at the Races is a winner.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 06/01/2005
ISBN: 9781400033171
Pages: 287
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.08h x 5.24w x 0.64d
Review Citations: Ingram Advance 06/01/2005 pg. 123
New York Times 05/22/2005 pg. 32
Kliatt 09/01/2005 pg. 43