Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (721 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B002RSRPVA |
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| Number of Pages | : | 113 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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Destined to become a classic, it will transfix readers everywhere.. By age six, Lily was helping her father break horses. She learned to drive a car and fly a plane. Rosemary Smith Walls always told Jeannette that she was like her grandmother, and in this true-life novel, Jeannette Walls channels that kindred spirit. At fifteen, she left home to teach in a frontier town—riding five hundred miles on her pony, alone, to get to her job. "Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did." So begins the story of Lily Casey Smith, Jeannette Walls’s no-nonsense, resourceful, and spectacularly compelling grandmother. She raised two children, one of whom is Jeannette’s memorable mother, Rosemary Smith Walls, unforgettably portrayed in The Glass Castle.Lily survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy. And, with her husband, Jim, she ran a vast ranch in Arizona. She bristled at prejudice of all kinds—against women, Native Americans, and anyone else who didn’t fit the mold.
From Publishers Weekly 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. (Oct.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. (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. All rights reserved. . Having been educated in fits and starts because of her parents' penury, Lily becomes a teacher at age
The life of Lily Casey Smith J.Walls is an excellent writer, best book Glass Castle, but this is a close second. If I were reading again I would read this before Glass Castle.Lily Casey Smith was a true woman to be looked up toShe grew up on ranches, training horses but realized as she got older that sh. "Good book" according to WFF. This is a good read. It contains an excellent account of how one woman made her way in life in spite of very difficult circumstances. It is especially interesting for readers who have some connection with the US southwest. Although Half Broke Horses is a novelized biography . "Half Broke Expectations" according to Layne DC. I so looked forward to reading this book - The Glass Castle was such a beautiful and profound work, that perhaps my expectations were simply too high.I found Half Broke Horses to be pedestrian and uninspired, full of stock characters that are disappointingly predictable and