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Rental book : Half broke horses : a true-life novel / Jeannette Walls.
Authors:
Walls, Jeannette.
Material type:
Book
Subject:
Texas -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Arizona -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Smith, Lily Casey,1901-1968 -- Fiction.
Autobiographical fiction.
Language:
English
Publisher:
New York : Scribner, 2009.
Description:
272 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9781416586289 (hardcover)
1416586288 (hardcover)
9781416586296 (pbk.)
1416586296 (pbk.)
9781439160534 (ebook)
1439160538 (ebook)
9780743597227 (audio cd)
0743597222 (audio cd)
9780743597234 (eaudio)
0743597230 (eaudio)
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.
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Walls's "The Glass Castle" was nothing short of spectacular ("Entertainment Weekly"). Now Walls presents this magnificent, true-life novel based on her no-nonsense, resourceful, hardworking, and spectacularly compelling grandmother.