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Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel
de Jeannette Walls
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good+/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1416586288
- ISBN 13
- 9781416586289
- Librería
-
Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
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Sobre este artículo
First edition hardcover with dust jacket, published by Scribner, 2009. The dust jacket is intact and is not price clipped. Author's follow-up to 'The Glass Castle', with a focus on the life of her grandmother. This copy is not a remainder, not a library copy. No writing on the text pages, no former ownership marks. The dust jacket has been protected with a clear, removable cover. Black boards with red cloth covered spine and the authr and title imprinted on the spine in silver. Boards are flat and the corners are not bumped or creased, no edge wear to the boards. Light crease mark to the lower right corner of the front flap of the jacket. Pages 253 - 260 have a diagonal crease mark at the lower right corner. Sewn binding is tight and square. There is a spot of ink transfer to the obverse side of the dust jacket, a dark spot about the size of a raisin at the top right of the front panel - appears as though the dark background of the dust jacket bled through in that spot. The attached photo is of the copy we have in our inventory, not a stock photo.
Sinopsis
Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle was "nothing short of spectacular" ( Entertainment Weekly ). Now she brings us the story of her grandmother -- told in a voice so authentic and compelling that the book is destined to become an instant classic. " Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did ." So begins the story of Lily Casey Smith, in Jeannette Walls's magnificent, true-life novel based on her no-nonsense, resourceful, hard working, and spectacularly compelling grandmother. By age six, Lily was helping her father break horses. At fifteen, she left home to teach in a frontier town -- riding five hundred miles on her pony, all 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, 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. 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 . It will transfix readers everywhere.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Hopkins Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 21-426
- Título
- Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel
- Autor
- Jeannette Walls
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good+
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 1416586288
- ISBN 13
- 9781416586289
- Editorial
- Scribner
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2009-10
- Palabras clave
- Arizona, Great Depression, Glass Castle
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Memoir;
Términos de venta
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Sobre el vendedor
Hopkins Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2015
Nashua, New Hampshire
Sobre Hopkins Books
We're a small, independent, family run book seller specializing in current fiction and non-fiction, with an emphasis on Art, Art History, History, Memoirs, Travel Memoirs, Signed First Editions, and Literature in Translation.Do you have any questions about our books ? Let us know, we'd love to hear from you! Do you want to see a photo of a book before you order it ? We try to post as many photos as possbiel, but sometimes there will be a item in inventory that does not show a photo here. So feel free to ask for photos, we don't mind at all. We package all of our orders carefully either in a box that has been designed to ship books, or in a padded envelope. We want to make sure you receive your order in the best possible condition!Our preferred shipping method is USPS Media Mail. Recently, the USPS has added tracking to Media Mail , which has been a great addition to this service.If you do choose to have your order shipped "Expedited", my shipping cost may seem higher than expected. Some of our books are large format hardcovers that can cost quite a bit when shipped expedited. So I would like to make sure that I can cover the cost upfront. However, if the actual cost of expedited shipping is less than the charge, I will refund the difference!
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