Overview
"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."
Full Product Details
Author: Jane Smiley
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
Imprint: Random House Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 13.10cm
, Height: 1.70cm
, Length: 20.30cm
Weight: 0.298kg
ISBN: 9781400033171
ISBN 10: 1400033179
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 19 April 2005
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Exuberant . . . witty, completely delightful. . . . A kind of <i>National Velvet</i> for adults. <i>San Francisco Chronicle Smiley is arguably America s foremost author on the subject of love. . . . And love imbues this memoir. <i> The Washington Post</i> Smiley has flung herself headlong . . . into horse racing. . . . Enough good horse stories to keep any reader happy. <i>The New York Times Book Review</i> Invigorating . . . thought-provoking. A delightful book filled with arcane horse knowledge. . . . It could easily become the bible of the barn. <i>The Baltimore Sun</i>
Exuberant . . . witty, completely delightful. . . . A kind of National Velvet for adults. - San Francisco Chronicle <br> Smiley is arguably America's foremost author on the subject of love. . . . And love imbues this memoir. -The Washington Post <br> Smiley has flung herself headlong . . . into horse racing. . . . Enough good horse stories to keep any reader happy. - The New York Times Book Review <br> Invigorating . . . thought-provoking. A delightful book filled with arcane horse knowledge. . . . It could easily become the bible of the barn. - The Baltimore Sun
Exuberant . . . witty, completely delightful. . . . A kind of National Velvet for adults. San Francisco Chronicle Smiley is arguably America s foremost author on the subject of love. . . . And love imbues this memoir. The Washington Post Smiley has flung herself headlong . . . into horse racing. . . . Enough good horse stories to keep any reader happy. The New York Times Book Review Invigorating . . . thought-provoking. A delightful book filled with arcane horse knowledge. . . . It could easily become the bible of the barn. The Baltimore Sun
Author Information
JANE SMILEY is the author of numerous novels, including, most recently, Good Faith, as well as a critically acclaimed biography of Charles Dickens. She is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2001. Smiley owns several horses and lives in Northern California.
