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A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and Luck

A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and Luck - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Jane SmileyPublish date:2005-06-01Pages:287
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9781400033171ISBN-10:1400033179UPC:9781400033171Book Category:Sports & Recreation, Nature, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Animal Sports, Animals, MemoirsBook Topic:Horse Racing, HorsesSize:8.08 x 5.24 x 0.64 inchesWeight:0.6195Product ID:SC0B1FAZXB
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9781400033171ISBN-10:1400033179UPC:9781400033171Book Category:Sports & Recreation, Nature, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Animal Sports, Animals, MemoirsBook Topic:Horse Racing, HorsesSize:8.08 x 5.24 x 0.64 inchesWeight:0.6195Product ID:SC0B1FAZXB
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.
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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