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A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and Luck
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ISBN10: 1400033179
ISBN13: 9781400033171
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: Jun 1 2005
Pages: 287
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.64 Width: 5.24 Depth: 8.08
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781400033171
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: Jun 1 2005
Pages: 287
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.64 Width: 5.24 Depth: 8.08
Language: English
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.
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