Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls

Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls

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.

Jeannette Walls was a journalist in New York after graduating from Barnard College. For more than six years, her book, The Glass Castle, has been a New York Times bestseller. She's also the author of The Silver Star, which was an instant New York Times bestseller, and Half Broke Horses, which was voted one of The New York Times Book Review's ten greatest books of 2009. Walls and her writer husband, John Taylor, live in rural Virginia.

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ISBN 13	9781439195710
ISBN 10	1439195714
Title	Half Broke Horses
Author	Jeannette Walls
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Scribner Book Company
Year published	2010-09-07
Number of pages	352
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.