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Lily Casey Smith is a sassy, straight-talking heroine for whom saving lives, taming wild horses and beating ranch hands at poker are all in a day's work. Born in 1901, in a dirt house in the rolling gritty grassland of Texas, at age six she is helping her father break horses. At fifteen she leaves home to teach in a town five hundred miles away, riding there on her pony, all alone. Lily handles everything that life throws at her - flash floods and tornadoes, the Great Depression, the most heartbreaking personal tragedy - with immense courage and determination and a wide smile.
The story of Lily's life has been passed down from one generation of her family to another. Now, in the words of her granddaughter Jeannette Walls, who draws on her own vivid imagination and compelling narrative powers, Lily's indomitable passion and spirit will shine through to readers everywhere, in this extraordinary true-life novel.
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The story of Lily's life has been passed down from one generation of her family to another. Now, in the words of her granddaughter Jeannette Walls, who draws on her own vivid imagination and compelling narrative powers, Lily's indomitable passion and spirit will shine through to readers everywhere, in this extraordinary true-life novel.
‘Based on the true life of the author’s maternal gran, it focuses on a woman who leaves home at fifteen to become a cowgirl and horse trainer’
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‘Half Broke Horses has immense power and readability...What Half Broke Horses does with aplomb is to track the birth of a nation: the conjuring of modern America from a scorched, dusty wasteland; the unstoppable encroachment of what might be civilisation but is probably just commercialism. Every time Lily travels she sees evidence of change. Railroads and skyscrapers appear as if from nowhere. Suspicion of authority grows. The moment when Lily is slapped back by a pupil she has herself slapped for his insolence is a critical one’
The Times 21/11
‘A worthy insight into the life of a remarkable woman’ Herald 19/12
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‘Half Broke Horses has immense power and readability...What Half Broke Horses does with aplomb is to track the birth of a nation: the conjuring of modern America from a scorched, dusty wasteland; the unstoppable encroachment of what might be civilisation but is probably just commercialism. Every time Lily travels she sees evidence of change. Railroads and skyscrapers appear as if from nowhere. Suspicion of authority grows. The moment when Lily is slapped back by a pupil she has herself slapped for his insolence is a critical one’
The Times 21/11
‘A worthy insight into the life of a remarkable woman’ Herald 19/12
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- ÉditeurSimon & Schuster Ltd
- Date d'édition2009
- ISBN 10 1847376754
- ISBN 13 9781847376756
- ReliureBroché
- Nombre de pages288
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Description du livre Paperback. Etat : Very Good. A debut novel based on the extraordinary life of Jeannette Walls' maternal grandmother - a sassy, straight-talking heroine for whom saving lives, taming wild horses and beating ranch hands at poker are all in a day's work. Born in 1901 in the rolling grassland of West Texas, at the age of 15, with very little formal education, Lily Casey Smith left home to begin teaching in a frontier town, riding 500 miles on her beloved pony, Patch, all alone, to get to her job. She went on, with her husband, to run an 180,000 acre ranch in Arizona and to raise two children, one of whom is Jeannette's memorable mother, Rosemary Smith Walls. Readers will love and marvel at this intrepid woman, for her fearlessness, her courage, her wicked sense of humour. A true adventurer! The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. N° de réf. du vendeur GOR001456258
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Description du livre Paperback. Etat : Fine. First Edition. 272 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. N° de réf. du vendeur 169629
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