A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and Luck

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.

• | Author: Jane Smiley
• | Publisher: Anchor Books
• | Publication Date: Jun 01, 2005
• | Number of Pages: 287 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 1400033179
• | ISBN-13: 9781400033171