Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel - Couverture rigide

Walls, Jeannette

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ISBN 10 : 1416586288 ISBN 13 : 9781416586289

Editeur : Scribner, 2009

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Quatrième de couverture

Lily Casey Smith is a sassy, straight-talking heroine for whom saving lives, taming wild horses and beating ranch hands at poker are all in a day's work. Born in 1901, in a dirt house in the rolling gritty grassland of Texas, at age six she is helping her father break horses. At fifteen she leaves home to teach in a town five hundred miles away, riding there on her pony, all alone. Lily handles everything that life throws at her - flash floods and tornadoes, the Great Depression, the most heartbreaking personal tragedy - with immense courage and determination and a wide smile.
The story of Lily's life has been passed down from one generation of her family to another. Now, in the words of her granddaughter Jeannette Walls, who draws on her own vivid imagination and compelling narrative powers, Lily's indomitable passion and spirit will shine through to readers everywhere, in this extraordinary true-life novel.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Scribner
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1416586288
• ISBN 13: 9781416586289
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288