![]() ![]() 1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK 'A WISE, SPIRITED NOVEL. IN WHICH SMILEY PLUMBS THE WONDROUSLY STRANGE WORLD OF HORSE. Horse Heaven by Jane Smiley is a wonderful novel, putting us among trainers and track brats, horse-obsessed girls, nervy jockeys, billionaire breeds and restless track wives. ![]() This is just one of the solutions for you to be successful. As in the best-selling Moo, the combination of Jane Smiley's endless imagination and Suzanne Toren's perfect narration creates a fabulously complete, utterly unique world. Horse Heaven by Jane Smiley: 9780449005415 : Books 1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK 'A WISE, SPIRITED NOVEL. Yeah, reviewing a ebook Horse Heaven Jane Smiley could amass your close connections listings. From tragic spills and winner's circle presentations, the only thing predictable about horse-racing - and life - is its total unpredictability. Can't-miss colts canter next to glue-factory-bound geldings. Trainers and jockeys balance the precarious demands of owners and horses. Unimaginably rich magnates rub elbows with stable managers struggling to make ends meet. ![]() Leo is one of dozens of characters - some human, some equine - who struggle through two years in the life of horse racing. "Eight or nine times a day, day after day, men and horses go out and line up and start running, and the next thing you know, you are in mystery-land." So says Leo, a sad-sack gambler with an incredibly intricate betting system. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author of A Thousand Acres comes this serious and tragic, funny and uplifting look at humanity - set in the world of horses. ![]()
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