Caballos salvajes nos descubre los orígenes de la disfuncional familia Walls. Si en El castillo de cristal los niños nos conmovieron con su fortaleza y sus ganas de vivir, en esta precuela será Lily Casey Smith, su abuela, la que nos brinde su tenacidad y perseverancia ante las dificultades que atravesó en el camino de su vida.
Heroína y pionera en el Lejano Oeste americano, Lily vivió durante sus casi primeros diez años en una caseta del desierto de Texas. A pesar de la extrema pobreza en que subsistía con sus padres, no tardó en convertirse en una joven maestra de un pueblo situado a 28 días a caballo, lo que supondría el principio de una sucesión de desafíos en una tierra de promesas y a la vez de grandes adversidades.
Tras casarse con un hombre bígamo, lo abandona para irse con otro hombre dueño de un rancho con el que tiene dos hijos -uno de ellos es Rose Mary Walls, la madre de El castillo de cristal-, y durante todo este tiempo se convertirá en jinete de rodeo, en domadora de caballos, en una despiadada jugadora de póquer y hará lo imposible porque ella y su familia sobrevivan, con su afán de superación y su encendida defensa de la libertad de la mujer a principios del siglo XX.
Jeannette Walls quería escribir sobre la infancia de su madre, pero la vida de su abuela terminó imponiéndose. Al final, todo tiene una explicación...
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«Walls recibió el mejor regalo que se le puede hacer a una escritora: una familia disfuncional empaquetada con excentricidades. [...] Caballos salvajes es el cuento de otra sardónica pariente de espíritu libre: su abuela materna Lily Casey Smith».
USA Today ENGLISH DESCRIPTION For the first 10 years of her life, Lily Casey Smith, the narrator of this true-life novel by her granddaughter, Walls, lived in a dirt dugout in west Texas. Walls, whose mega selling memoir, The Glass Castle, recalled her own upbringing, writes in what she recalls as Lily's plainspoken voice, whose recital provides plenty of drama and suspense as she ricochets from one challenge to another. Having been educated in fits and starts because of her parents' penury, Lily becomes a teacher at age 15 in a remote frontier town she reaches after a solo 28-day ride. Marriage to a bigamist almost saps her spirit, but later she weds a rancher with whom she shares two children and a strain of plucky resilience. (They sell bootleg liquor during Prohibition, hiding the bottles under a baby's crib.) Lily is a spirited heroine, fiercely outspoken against hypocrisy and prejudice, a rodeo rider and fearless breaker of horses, and a ruthless poker player. Assailed by flash floods, tornados and droughts, Lily never gets far from hardscrabble drudgery in several states—New Mexico, Arizona, Illinois—but hers is one of those heartwarming stories about indomitable women that will always find an audience.
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Jeanette Walls (Phoenix, 1960), escritora y periodista estadounidense, se hizo famosa gracias a su trabajo como reportera del corazón en MSNBC.com y como autora de la novela El castillo de cristal, en la que narra las andanzas de su extraña familia. El éxito de su libro fue tal que se mantuvo en el Top-100 del New York Times durante 100 semanas, recibiendo premios como el Readers o el Premio de la American Library Association.
Walls ha trabajado para medios como el New York Times, Esquire o USA Today, además de en programas televisivos como Primetime o The colbert Report.
En 2009 publicó su primer libro de ficción, Caballos salvajes, basado en la vida de su abuela.
Walls recibio el mejor regalo que se le puede hacer a una escritora, una familia disfuncional empaquetada con excentricidades. Caballos salvajes es el cuento de otra sardonica pariente de espiritu libre, su abuela materna Lily Casey Smith. --USA Today
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