false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255571692m/6366437.jpg 6366437 7 <b>Jeannette Walls's <I>The Glass Castle</i> was "nothing short of spectacular" (<I>Entertainment Weekly</i>). 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. </b><P>"<I>Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did</i>." 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 <I>The Glass Castle</i>. <P>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. <I>Half Broke Horses</i> is Laura Ingalls Wilder for adults, as riveting and dramatic as Isak Dinesen's <I>Out of Africa</i> or Beryl Markham's <I>West with the Night</i>. It will transfix readers everywhere. 6553801 book 6 10 2009 Half Broke Horses: A True Life Novel total:661|5:154|4:327|3:142|2:33|1:5| 661 2575 2919 251 4 0 false false Wed Nov 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 11:25:45 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 11:26:15 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 2 false false Sat Oct 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 19:51:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 19:51:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 03:26:02 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 03:27:11 -0700 2009
Walls states that she considered this book a memoir and wrote it in her grandmother’s voice, which she clearly remembered although h...more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Oct 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 08:52:46 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 04:48:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 2 false false Mon Oct 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 05:50:29 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 05:51:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 4 false false Tue Oct 20 14:54:27 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 14:55:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Oct 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 02:55:08 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 02:56:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Oct 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 04:16:28 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 16:48:54 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 2 4 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 17:16:19 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 17:22:28 -0700 2009
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