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Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel (edição 2009)

por Jeannette Walls (Autor)

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A true-life novel about Lily Casey Smith (the author's grandmother) who at age six helped her father break horses, at age fifteen left home to teach in a frontier town, and later as a wife and mother runs a vast ranch in Arizona where she survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy--but despite a life of hardscrabble drudgery still remains a woman of indomitable spirit.… (mais)
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Título:Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel
Autores:Jeannette Walls (Autor)
Informação:Scribner (2010), Edition: Reprint, 272 pages
Coleções:Confirmed, A sua biblioteca, Para ler
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Etiquetas:memoir-biography, nonfiction

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Half Broke Horses por Jeannette Walls

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A ?memoir? of the writer?s mother. Incredible story.
  bentstoker | Jan 26, 2024 |
I remember reading years back Jeannette Walls' first book, her memoir, GLASS CASTLE, and enjoying it greatly. It was a huge bestseller, and, I think, a movie too. HALF BROKE HORSES is neither a memoir nor a biography. Instead it's a novel based on the life of her grandmother, Lily Casey Smith, born at the turn of the last century, who grew up wild on western ranches in Texas and Arizona, where her father, half crippled, and with a speech impediment, carved a life out of training carriage horses. Lily loved horses, but she also loved learning, and got a teaching certificate at a young age and taught in tiny one-room schools, often clashing with administrators and moving on. Her story continues through the Great Depression and prohibition years. After one ill-fated early marriage (he was already married, with kids) in Chicago, in Arizona she marries a man twenty years older, has a couple of kids, goes back to college, helps her husband run a business, then a ranch, sells a little hooch on the side to make ends meet (and carries a gun), teaches some more, learns to drive - and to fly - moves to the city, then back to the country. Sends her kids off to boarding school. Watches her kids grow up and marry. I mean this is a woman's whole LIFE, and there's a LOT going on here. Remember I said I loved Walls' first book? Well ditto this one. Jeannette Walls is one helluva story teller. My highest recommendation.

- Tim Bazzett, author of the memoir, BOOKLOVER ( )
  TimBazzett | Jan 13, 2024 |
This book is exactly what it promised to be: a fictionalized memoir, based on the author's oral family history. It follows the author's grandmother's life story, which was a somewhat adventurous one. The story, like all good family histories, has the unmistakable elements of the tall tale (or as my own dad puts it, "telling lies") where the truth has been either stretched or embroidered to fill in the gaps or make boring stuff more interesting, or to interpret events as Fate/God's Will.

The problem for me was that, at the 50% mark (~4 hours of listening), this story wasn't all that interesting, even with all the stretching and embroidering. I could have finished, barely paying attention as I listened while doing housework, etc., but life is just too short and I've got 45 other audiobooks on my acquired-TBR shelf to listen to.

So, DNF at 50%. YMMV.

This audiobook was borrowed from my local public library. It was read by the author, whose obviously amateur performance was still pretty good, and gave the narrative the ring of authenticity. ( )
  Doodlebug34 | Jan 1, 2024 |
Here's what I wrote in 2012 about this read: "Great story of a strong woman in the developing American West, of Mary's Mom-Mom era. Mostly creative fiction, but inspired author's grandmother." Quotations in the comments section are my exact Kindle highlights. ( )
  MGADMJK | Dec 7, 2023 |
It was like Little House on the Praire meets Buffalo Bill. It was interesting but a little pointless. ( )
  MsTera | Oct 10, 2023 |
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The pert style of “Half Broke Horses” is much more repetitive and grating than the more spontaneous-sounding voice Ms. Walls used to describe her own life.

But the author comes from a family that knew how to lure horses using grain, not rope. And she has inherited a version of that skill. So she has managed to make her second book almost as inviting as her first, even though its upright heroine is never as startling as Ms. Walls’s parents were.
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A true-life novel about Lily Casey Smith (the author's grandmother) who at age six helped her father break horses, at age fifteen left home to teach in a frontier town, and later as a wife and mother runs a vast ranch in Arizona where she survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy--but despite a life of hardscrabble drudgery still remains a woman of indomitable spirit.

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