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.
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"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.