false true 102 999 7 hours and 55 min. Jeannette Walls false 0.0 false 999 http://www.qksrv.net/interactive?aid=10653481&pid=3438228&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.audible.com%2Fadbl%2Fstore%2Fwelcome.jsp%3Fsource_code%3DCOMA0211WS021909%26entryRedirect%3D%2Fentry%2Foffers%2FproductPromo2.jsp%26entryParams%3D%5EproductID%7EBK_SANS_001855 Fiction, Historical false 0 2009-10-15T17:00:51Z USD unabridged 44082 image/jpeg t4_image.jpg 12645 2010-03-06T20:41:44Z false Historical http://img.audible.com/audiblewords/content/bk/sans/001855/full_image.jpg 2009-10-14T00:00:00Z Jeannette Walls's memoir The Glass Castle was "nothing short of spectacular" ( Entertainment Weekly ). Now, in Half Broke Horses , she brings us the story of her grandmother, told in a first-person voice that is authentic, irresistible, and triumphant. "Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did." So begins the story of Lily Casey Smith, Jeannette Walls's no nonsense, resourceful, and spectacularly compelling grandmother. By age six, Lily was helping her father break horses. At 15, she left home to teach in a frontier town - riding 500 miles on her pony, alone, to get to her job. She learned to drive a car ("I loved cars even more than I loved horses. They didn't need to be fed if they weren't working, and they didn't leave big piles of manure all over the place") and fly a plane. And, with her husband Jim, she ran a vast ranch in Arizona. She raised two children, one of whom is Jeannette's memorable mother, Rosemary Smith Walls, unforgettably portrayed in The Glass Castle . Lily survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy. She bristled at prejudice of all kinds -- against women, Native Americans, and anyone else who didn't fit the mold. Rosemary Smith Walls always told Jeannette that she was like her grandmother, and in this true-life novel, Jeannette Walls channels that kindred spirit. Half Broke Horses is Laura Ingalls Wilder for adults, as riveting and dramatic as Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa or Beryl Markham's West with the Night . Destined to become a classic, it will transfix audiences everywhere. Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel (Unabridged) Jeannette Walls 1 true 31 false 999 27.99 broke-horses-true-life-novel-unabridged 3 Simon & Schuster Audio false 999 false 2009-09-23T00:00:00Z 39.99 http://audible.edgeboss.net/download/audible/content/bk/sans/001855/bk_sans_001855_sample.mp3 http://cdl.audible.com/cgi-bin/aw_streamer.pl?prod_id=BK_SANS_001855&format=rm http://cdl.audible.com/cgi-bin/aw_streamer.pl?prod_id=BK_SANS_001855&format=asf The story of Lily Casey Smith, Jeannette Walls's no nonsense, resourceful, and spectacularly compelling grandmother.... BK_SANS_001855 http://img.audible.com/audiblewords/content/bk/sans/001855/small_frame.gif 2010-03-06T20:41:44Z