Half Broke Horses
A True-Life Novel
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Description:
"Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did." So begins the story of Lily Casey Smith, Jeannette Walls s no-nonsense, resourceful, 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, alone, to get to her job. She learned to drive a car and fly a plane. And, with her husband, Jim, she 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. Rosemary Smith Walls always told Jeannette that she was like her grandmother, and in this true-life novel, Jeannette Walls channels that kindred spirit. 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. Destined to become a classic, it will transfix readers everywhere.
Details:
- Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER
- Subject Development: Fiction - Historical
- Academic Level: General Adult
- Depth (m): 0.019
- Dewey: 813/.6
- Edition: Reprint
- Height (m): 0.203
- Pages: 272
- Place Of Publication: United States
- Published Date: Tue 7 Sep 2010
- Volume: 38
- Weight (g): 249
- Width (m): 0.133
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