Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel: A True Life Novel
by Jeannette Walls
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1416586288
- ISBN 13
- 9781416586289
- Seller
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About This Item
About this Item: Scribner, 2009. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls author of the unforgettable novel Glass Castle is the true story of her and her no-nonsense resourceful and spectacularly compelling Grandmother Lily. Book is an ex-library book in near fine condition with a fine priced (26.00) jacket. Ex-library Book is unmarked except for a stamp on the front paste down. Great reading copy. Seller Inventory # 001459
Synopsis
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.
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- Bookseller
- Oshtemo Book Sellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7371
- Title
- Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel
- Author
- Jeannette Walls
- Format/Binding
- Quarter bound in red cloth over boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition/First printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1416586288
- ISBN 13
- 9781416586289
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2009-10
- Keywords
- First Edition/First printing
- Size
- 8vo
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