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

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

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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.

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  • Jun 1, 2005 Pub Date:
  • 9781400033171 ISBN-13:
  • 1400033179 ISBN-10:
  • 304.0 pages Paperback
  • English Language