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Original Title:	Half Broke Horses: A True Life Novel
ISBN:	1416586288 (ISBN13: 9781416586289)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Lily Casey Smith
Literary Awards:	Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2009)

Half Broke Horses

Jeannette Walls

Hardcover | Pages: 272 pages

Rating: 4.07 | 136976 Users | 11414 Reviews

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Jeannette Walls's memoir The Glass Castle was "nothing short of spectacular" (Entertainment Weekly). Now, in Half Broke Horses, she brings us the story of her grandmother, told in a first-person voice that is authentic, irresistible, and triumphant. "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. By age six, Lily was helping her father break horses. At fifteen, she left home to teach in a frontier town -- riding five hundred miles on her pony, alone, to get to her job. She learned to drive a car ("I loved cars even more than I loved horses. They didn't need to be fed if they weren't working, and they didn't leave big piles of manure all over the place") and fly a plane. And, with her husband Jim, she ran a vast ranch in Arizona. 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. She bristled at prejudice of all kinds -- against women, Native Americans, and anyone else who didn't fit the mold. Rosemary Smith Walls always told Jeannette that she was like her grandmother, and in this true-life novel, Jeannette Walls channels that kindred spirit. Half Broke Horses is Laura Ingalls Wilder for adults, as riveting and dramatic as Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa or Beryl Markham's West with the Night. Destined to become a classic, it will transfix audiences everywhere.

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Title	:	Half Broke Horses
Author	:	Jeannette Walls
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 272 pages
Published	:	October 6th 2009 by Scribner (first published October 6th 2008)
Categories	:	Autobiography. Memoir. Nonfiction. Biography. Book Club. Historical. Biography Memoir. Adult

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Ratings: 4.07 From 136976 Users | 11414 Reviews

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An easy book to read without the shocking episodes that occurred in The Glass Castle. It gave insight into Rosemary, the mom, who just allowed everything to happen without feelings. It gave you insight as to why Rosemary allowed her children to grow up poor and without what we think to be life's necessities.

Audiobook read by the author.In what she calls a true life novel, Walls turns her attention to her maternal grandmother: Lily Casey Smith. Not having the specifics of dialogue and thought, Walls felt it was not appropriate to call this nonfiction, yet it truly is her grandmothers story.Walls is a wonderful storyteller; she really brings Lily and all the other characters to life. And what a life! Lily survived floods, a tornado, the Great Depression, financial losses, and the pain of personal

I liked this book a lot. It has great, humorous lines. The author call this a book of fiction because although it is about her grandmother (Lily) and the youth of her mother, the star of The Glass Castle, Jeannette was only eight when her grandmother died. What we are told are the stories repeated by her family. The dialogs are invented. It is these lines that are so marvelous. There is such humor in them and wisdom too. I like Lilly. Here is a woman who was never crushed by hard times. She

I wish Jeannette Walls' biography/novel 'Half Broke Horses' had been available prior to her own biography 'The Glass Castle'. Both of the stories are related and rivetting but 'Half Broke Horses' provides the background for Jeannette's bizarre upbringing. This account of her grand-mother's life living on ranches in west Texas, New Mexico and Arizona is a wonderful tribute to a 'pioneer' who isn't afraid of hard labor--she's one spunky, admirable woman and a real survivor.

That was fun! Very much looking forward to author's own memoir. The first person narrator worked so well.

Half Broke Horses, Jeannette WallsHalf Broke Horses is a 2009 novel by Jeannette Walls detailing the life of her grandmother, Lily Casey Smith. Half Broke Horses is the story of Lily Casey Smiths life. Author Jeannette Walls, the granddaughter of Lily Casey Smith, wrote the book from Lilys point of view. Lily is portrayed as a strong, spirited, and resourceful woman, who overcomes poverty and tragedy with the positive attitude that When God closes a window, he opens a door. But its up to you to

One way to really get me pissed off is to tell me that the past was innocent and simple. What you really mean when you say that is that your childhood was innocent and simple, which is probably also debatable, but at least seems fair from a nostalgic standpoint. The farther we look back to our childhoods, the more innocent life seems, and so things that happened before we were born must be the most innocent. No. Not true. People have always been just about as fucked up as we are now. I would say