Jeannette Walls's "The Glass Castle" was "nothing short of spectacular" ("Entertainment Weekly"). Now she brings us the story of her grandmother -- told in a voice so authentic and compelling that the book is destined to become an instant classic. ""Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did."" So begins the story of Lily Casey Smith, in Jeannette Walls's magnificent, true-life novel based on her no-nonsense, resourceful, hard working, 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, all 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, 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. "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." It will transfix readers everywhere.
發表於2025-02-02
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Half Broke Horses By Jeannette Walls, author of The Glass Castle If you like Walls’ previous novel “The Glass Castle”, you will probably like this one. Some say “Half Broke Horses” is good, but not “The Glass Castle” good. I find them equally fa...
評分Half Broke Horses By Jeannette Walls, author of The Glass Castle If you like Walls’ previous novel “The Glass Castle”, you will probably like this one. Some say “Half Broke Horses” is good, but not “The Glass Castle” good. I find them equally fa...
評分Half Broke Horses By Jeannette Walls, author of The Glass Castle If you like Walls’ previous novel “The Glass Castle”, you will probably like this one. Some say “Half Broke Horses” is good, but not “The Glass Castle” good. I find them equally fa...
評分Half Broke Horses By Jeannette Walls, author of The Glass Castle If you like Walls’ previous novel “The Glass Castle”, you will probably like this one. Some say “Half Broke Horses” is good, but not “The Glass Castle” good. I find them equally fa...
評分Half Broke Horses By Jeannette Walls, author of The Glass Castle If you like Walls’ previous novel “The Glass Castle”, you will probably like this one. Some say “Half Broke Horses” is good, but not “The Glass Castle” good. I find them equally fa...
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評分主人公第一個丈夫是個油嘴滑舌的人,自己有瞭老婆,還是和主人公結婚瞭。當時覺得主人公的經曆好特彆,經曆過前男友的事情後覺得隻是自私冷漠無情無義的另一種錶現形式罷瞭。主人公的第二個丈夫就很好,主人公懷疑過他和彆人齣軌來著,還跟蹤過他,他丈夫也就好好跟她解釋錶衷心瞭(頓時想起我看到前男友和某文科女生的聊天記錄他立刻就把密碼改瞭。。。)這本書挺好看的,當年覺得戲劇,現在覺得寫實,喜歡堅強的女主角和喜歡堅強女主角的她的丈夫
評分主人公第一個丈夫是個油嘴滑舌的人,自己有瞭老婆,還是和主人公結婚瞭。當時覺得主人公的經曆好特彆,經曆過前男友的事情後覺得隻是自私冷漠無情無義的另一種錶現形式罷瞭。主人公的第二個丈夫就很好,主人公懷疑過他和彆人齣軌來著,還跟蹤過他,他丈夫也就好好跟她解釋錶衷心瞭(頓時想起我看到前男友和某文科女生的聊天記錄他立刻就把密碼改瞭。。。)這本書挺好看的,當年覺得戲劇,現在覺得寫實,喜歡堅強的女主角和喜歡堅強女主角的她的丈夫
評分沒有太多的感覺。不如她的那本自傳。當然從她的外婆的這本小傳,可以看齣基因的偉大。
Half Broke Horses 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載