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Half Broke Horses: True Life Novel, Author: Glass Castle(HBook,1
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Signed
- No
- Book Series
- N/A
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Original Language
- English
- Inscribed
- No
- Intended Audience
- Young Adults, Adults
- Edition
- First Edition
- Vintage
- No
- Personalize
- No
- Type
- Novel
- Literary Movement
- Realism
- Era
- 2000s
- Illustrator
- N/A
- Personalized
- No
- Features
- Dust Jacket
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Personalization Instructions
- none
- ISBN
- 9781416586289
- Book Title
- Half Broke Horses : a True-Life Novel
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Literary, Coming of Age, Biographical
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 17.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle was "nothing short of spectacular" ( Entertainment Weekly ). Now she brings us the story of her grandmother -- told in a voice so authentic and compelling that the book is destined to become an instant classic. " Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did ." So begins the story of Lily Casey Smith, in Jeannette Walls's magnificent, true-life novel based on her no-nonsense, resourceful, hard working, and spectacularly compelling grandmother. By age six, Lily was helping her father break horses. At fifteen, she left home to teach in a frontier town -- riding five hundred miles on her pony, all alone, to get to her job. She learned to drive a car ("I loved cars even more than I loved horses. They didn't need to be fed if they weren't working, and they didn't leave big piles of manure all over the place") and fly a plane, and, with her husband, ran a vast ranch in Arizona. She raised two children, one of whom is Jeannette's memorable mother, Rosemary Smith Walls, unforgettably portrayed in The Glass Castle . Lily survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy. She bristled at prejudice of all kinds -- against women, Native Americans, and anyone else who didn't fit the mold. Half Broke Horses is Laura Ingalls Wilder for adults, as riveting and dramatic as Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa or Beryl Markham's West with the Night . It will transfix readers everywhere.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Scribner
ISBN-10
1416586288
ISBN-13
9781416586289
eBay Product ID (ePID)
18038841105
Product Key Features
Book Title
Half Broke Horses : a True-Life Novel
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literary, Coming of Age, Biographical
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
17.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3623.A3644h35 2009
Reviews
" Half Broke Horses [is] the tale of yet another free-spirited wisecracking relative, her maternal grandmother, Lily Casey Smith. Think a rifle-toting, horse-breaking Annie Oakley in a biplane."-- Craig Wilson, USA Today, " Half Broke Horses [is] the tale of yet another free-spirited wisecracking relative, her maternal grandmother, Lily Casey Smith. Think a rifle-toting, horse-breaking Annie Oakley in a biplane." -- Craig Wilson, USA Today, "Half Broke Horses[is] the tale of yet another free-spirited wisecracking relative, her maternal grandmother, Lily Casey Smith. Think a rifle-toting, horse-breaking Annie Oakley in a biplane."-- Craig Wilson,USA Today, Jeannette Walls . . . once again proves that the combination of gifted storyteller with great stories is both rare and intoxicating."-- The Cleveland Plain Dealer, "Jeannette Walls . . . once again proves that the combination of gifted storyteller with great stories is both rare and intoxicating."-- The Cleveland Plain Dealer, "Lily Casey Smith is one astonishing woman...a half-broke horse herself who's clearly passed on her best traits to her granddaughter. Told in a natural, offhand voice that is utterly enthralling, this is essential reading for anyone who loves good fiction." --Library Journal, "[An] eloquent tribute to a pragmatic heroine . . . A powerhouse-fast-moving, fearless and impossible to forget."-Michelle Green, People, [Jeannette Walls is] the third generation of a line of indomitable women whose paths she has inscribed on the permanent record, enriching the common legend of our American past."-Liesl Schillinger, New York Times Book Review (cover review), "Lily Casey Smith is one astonishing woman...a half-broke horse herself who's clearly passed on her best traits to her granddaughter. Told in a natural, offhand voice that is utterly enthralling, this is essential reading for anyone who loves good fiction." -- Library Journal
Copyright Date
2009
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2009-018781
Illustrated
Yes
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