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

Smiley, Jane

ISBN 10: 1400033179 / ISBN 13: 9781400033171

Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and Luck
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1400033179
• ISBN 13: 9781400033171
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

JANE SMILEY is the author of numerous novels, including, most recently, Good Faith, as well as a critically acclaimed biography of Charles Dickens. She is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2001. Smiley owns several horses and lives in Northern California.