A Year at the Races

Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and Luck

By: Jane Smiley

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Paperback | 1 June 2005

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287 Pages

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20.52 x 13.31 x 1.63

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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.

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"Exuberant . . . witty, completely delightful. . . . A kind of National Velvet for adults." -San Francisco Chronicle "Smiley is arguably America's foremost author on the subject of love. . . . And love imbues this memoir." -The Washington Post

"Smiley has flung herself headlong . . . into horse racing. . . . Enough good horse stories to keep any reader happy." -The New York Times Book Review

"Invigorating . . . thought-provoking. A delightful book filled with arcane horse knowledge. . . . It could easily become the bible of the barn." -The Baltimore Sun

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