A Year at the Races (Paperback: Reprint: 304 pages)
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Product Details: A Year at the Races
| Author: | Jane Smiley |
| Format: | Paperback: Reprint: 304 pages. |
| Publisher: | Alfred a Knopf Inc (06/14/2005) |
| ISBN: | 1400033179 |
| ISBN13: | 9781400033171 |
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Pro Reviews: A Year at the Races
The surety and glow of her prose fragrantly convey the author's sensuous and protective love for horses....
[Smiley's] great virtue as a writer about horses is her emotional candor. Most horse owners...try to refrain from talking about how deeply they love their animals or from telling cute stories about them. Not Smiley....In A YEAR AT THE RACES, Smiley examines love, ambition, personality and intelligence in horses, mixed with enough good horse stories to keep any reader happy.
Publisher Notes: A Year at the Races
- Jane Smiley, who has had horses since she was a small child, writes about not only the race track but her own experiences and--in particular--those of the horses she has loved. Her aim here is to write about horses the way a novelist writes about human characters--because horses are, she insists, are every bit as quirky and interesting as men and women. In support of her thesis, Smiley zeroes in on two of her own horses to describe what happened to them as they raced at tracks across America. As she makes her case, Smiley shows that she can be as scrupulous and entertaining a storyteller in a factual chronicle as she is in her fiction.
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