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Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel
Jeannette Walls
#UD6282
Paperback, 288 pages; 2010 (2009)
$15.00
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I became known as Lily Casey, the mustang-breaking, poker-playing, horse-race-winning schoolmarm of Coconino County, and it wasn't half bad to be in a place where no one had a problem with a woman having a moniker like that.
In Half Broke Horses, Jeannette Walls--author of the incredible bestselling memoir The Glass Castle--introduces us to her grandmother Lily Casey Smith. From her hardscrabble childhood in early-1900s west Texas, through an exciting stint in the big city of Chicago, and on to her unconventional family life on a big Arizona ranch, Lily becomes palpably real--in all her untamable glory--via Walls's fact-based first-person narrative. Whether you're interested in some fascinating backstory to The Glass Castle or you just enjoy a good yarn about a dauntless twentieth-century woman, this novel delivers in rollicking style!
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