Half Broke Horses - by Jeannette Walls (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Walls reimagines the life of her grandmother, Lily Casey, who by age six was helping her father break horses. At 15, she left home to teach in a frontier town--riding 500 miles on her pony to get to her post. She learned to drive a car, fly a plane, and with her husband, managed a vast ranch in Arizona, surviving tornadoes, droughts, floods, and the Great Depression.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b><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>Destined to become a classic, it will transfix readers everywhere.</b> <p/>"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 who 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. Rosemary Smith Walls always told Jeannette that she was like her grandmother, and in this true-life novel, Jeannette Walls channels that kindred spirit. <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>. Destined to become a classic, it will transfix readers everywhere.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Jeannette Walls . . . once again proves that the combination of gifted storyteller with great stories is both rare and intoxicating.--<i>The Cleveland Plain Dealer</i><br><br>"[An] eloquent tribute to a pragmatic heroine . . . A powerhouse--fast-moving, fearless and impossible to forget."--Michelle Green, <i>People</i><br><br>[Jeannette Walls is] the third generation of a line of indomitable women whose paths she has inscribed on the permanent record, enriching the common legend of our American past."--Liesl Schillinger, <i>New York Times Book Review</i> (cover review)<br>
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