A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and Luck
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| Rating | : | 4.21 (875 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1400033179 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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from what I read here .I doubt I'm going to finish the book. Obviously, the annointed Ms. Smiley can do no wrong in the critics' eyes, but even before I learned about the conservative-bashing that awaits me further on, I did not have a high opinion of this book. I found much of it dull, disjointed and vaguely annoying. Perhaps she should have chosen her equine anecdotes a bit more carefully. It's cute the first time she consults a horse psychic for her steed; the third or fourth time, you start getting this picture of a spoiled owner with way. who knew? Judith A. Dunworth I certainly didn't know that horses have sensory awareness all along their flanks which help to position them in space. Also their hooves give them feedback. This sensitivity lets them run so fast so close together. Just one of the bits of information I'd never run across in this entertaining and wonderfully written book. If you are interested in horses you'll want to read this.. Deja Vu and Heaven too. Barb This book gives us an insight into Smiley's sources for her book "Horse Heaven" but that does not distract from the excellence of her non fiction tale. The love affairs she has had with these beasts, (anyone who has been owned by multiple horses knows that it is an intense passionate affair), are compiled and noted in detail. The two horses who are the main focus are as interesting and as different as any of Shakespeare's characters and are far more entrancing to me. This book is interesting,opinionated without being pre
“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. Filled with humor and suspense, and with discourses on equine intelligence, affection, and character, A Year at the Races is a winner.. To love something is to observe it with more than usual attention, and that is precisely what Smiley does in this irresistibly smart, witty, and engaging chronicle of her obsession.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
Alexis was forty-eight. While the book offers anecdotes and an array of Smiley's theories about horse personality and cognizance, it lacks the narrative or dramatic flair that one expects would come naturally from such an accomplished novelist. Persey was four. She does not aim "to evoke horseness, but to evoke horse individuality; to do what a novelist naturally does, which is to limn idiosyncrasy and character, and thereby to shade in some things about identity." This she accomplishes through illustrative episodes with some of the horses she has owned, focusing on two and their fortunes at the track. had died the year before, at t