A Year At The Races: Reflections On Horses, Humans, Love, Money, And Luck

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres comes an irresistibly smart, witty, and engaging chronicle of a novelist’s lifelong obsession with horses. - ＂Exuberant...witty, completely delightful.... A kind of National Velvet for adults.＂ --San Francisco Chronicle

＂Every horse story is a love story,＂ writes Jane Smiley, who has loved horses for most of her life and owned and bred them for a good part of it. To love something is to observe it with more than usual attention, and that is precisely what Smiley does in this

In particular she follows a sexy filly named Waterwheel and a grey named Wowie (he ＂tells＂ a horse communicator that he wants it changed from Hornblower) as they begin careers at the racetrack. Filled with humor and suspense, and with discourses on equine intelligence, affection, and character, A Year at the Races is a winner.

Jane Smiley is the author of numerous novels, including, most recently, Good Faith, as well as a critically acclaimed biography of Charles Dickens. She is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2001. Smiley owns several horses and lives in Northern California.