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Half Broke Horses: A True Life Novel
by Jeannette Walls
- New
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 1416586288
- ISBN 13
- 9781416586289
- Seller
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TORRINGTON, Wyoming, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Schribner, 2009. Book. Illus. by Photographs. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. N/N, new hc, 272 pages. Black colored paper over boards with red cloth on spine and silver text. Illustrated dust jacket with red, black and light blue text on upper and spine; not price clipped. Interior pages clean, unmarked, stiff, unread. Binding is tight. This is the second in the author's family tale..
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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Details
- Bookseller
- PRAIRIE CREEK BOOKS & TEA LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014317
- Title
- Half Broke Horses: A True Life Novel
- Author
- Jeannette Walls
- Illustrator
- Photographs
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1416586288
- ISBN 13
- 9781416586289
- Publisher
- Schribner
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2009
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Jeannette Walls, Lily Casey Smith, KC Ranch
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
PRAIRIE CREEK BOOKS & TEA LLC
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TORRINGTON, Wyoming
About PRAIRIE CREEK BOOKS & TEA LLC
We specialize in western history, gun knife and hunting titles. Also try to stock Wyoming history titles. We have a walk-in store on US Hwy 26/85 the most direct route to Fort Laramie National History site..We have what I think is the largest seleciton of weapons titles in SE Wyoming, both new and used. Always looking for good used weapons titles.
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