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Half broke horses : a true-life novel / Jeannette Walls.

Walls, Jeannette. (Author).

Summary:

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781439160534
  • ISBN: 1439160538
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations
  • Edition: 1st Scribner hardcover ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2009.

Content descriptions

General Note:
B002PMVQCW (Amazon Standard Identification Number (ASIN)).
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.
Subject:
Smith, Lily Casey, 1901-1968 > Fiction.
Smith, Lily Casey, 1901-1968.
Fiction.
Literature.
Literary.
Genre:
Electronic books.
Fiction.
Autobiographical fiction.
Electronic books.

Other Formats and Editions

English (2)

Electronic resources


Jeannette Walls graduated from Barnard College and was a journalist in New York. Her memoir, The Glass Castle, has been a New York Times bestseller for more than six years. She is also the author of the instant New York Times bestsellers The Silver Star and Half Broke Horses, which was named one of the ten best books of 2009 by the editors of The New York Times Book Review. Walls lives in rural Virginia with her husband, the writer John Taylor.

Jeannette Walls graduated from Barnard College and was a journalist in New York. Her memoir, The Glass Castle, has been a New York Times bestseller for more than eight years. She is also the author of the instant New York Times bestsellers The Silver Star and Half Broke Horses, which was named one of the ten best books of 2009 by the editors of The New York Times Book Review. Walls lives in rural Virginia with her husband, the writer John Taylor.