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Walls’s new book, “Half Broke Horses,” a novelistic re-creation of the life of her maternal grandmother, Lily Casey Smith, in the first half of the 20th century, told in her grandmother ...
6 paź 2009 · 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. Destined to become a classic, it will transfix audiences everywhere.
6 paź 2009 · 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. Destined to become a classic, it will transfix audiences everywhere.
1 paź 2009 · Lily’s childhood on ranches in west Texas and New Mexico is an idyll filled with chores like breaking horses. She wins academic honors at the Catholic boarding school she attends until her father spends her tuition money to buy some dogs. A scrapper, Lily overcomes every setback.
21 paź 2009 · Jeannette Walls has the blessed curse of a debut smash-hit. With her memoir The Glass Castle selling more than 2.5 million copies, the heat must have been on while working through Half Broke Horses: a True-Life Novel. Well, fear not.
Breaking horses by the age of six, having her broken arm re-set by her own father, saving her siblings from a flash flood, and traveling alone 500 miles on horseback to teach school all occurred by age fifteen.
22 sty 2011 · Review. Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel. by Jeannette Walls. Jeannette Walls, like her contemporaries Mary Gordon and Mary. Karr, has lived a life of unfathomable pain and tragedy, yet has. managed to use the hurt as inspiration for great literary works. THE GLASS CASTLE --- her memoir of growing up in a most.
