Description

Title: Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and Luck
Author: Smiley, Jane
ISBN: 9781400033171
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2005
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher Description:
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.