Simon & Schuster Half Broke Horses
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Readers fell in love with Jeannette Walls' unforgettable family in The Glass Castle . Now discover how it all began for the Walls family... 'I never knew a girl to have such gumption,' [Mom would] say. 'But I'm not too sure that's a good thing.' Meet Lily Casey Smith: horse-trainer, airplane pilot, flapper, mother and teacher. Born in 1901 in the rolling grassland of West Texas, Lily grows up with a passion for horses and an indomitable spirit. At age 15 she leaves home, riding 500 miles across the American West on her beloved pony Patch, her pearl-handled six-shooter by her side. Her goal: a teaching post in a frontier-town school. Lily will handle everything life throws at her - flash-floods, tornadoes, the Great Depression, a swindling husband, love and heartbreak - with courage, determination and a smile as wide as the Texas skies.*~*~* 'With convincing, unprettified narration , Walls weaves her own ancestor into this collective rough-and-tumble heritage... [Walls is] the third generation of a line of indomitable women whose paths she has inscribed on the permanent record, enriching the common legend of our American past' New York Times 'A commendable chronicle of an admirably tough woman on America's western frontier' Washington Post 'Has immense power and readibility ... What it does with aplomb is to track the birth of a nation: the conjuring of modern America from a scorched, dusty wasteland' The Times Review: Schullektüre - Für die Schule und dennoch interessant und spannend. Review: Merece la pena - Al igual que los otros dos libros de la autora, este tampoco me ha defraudado. Merece la pena, lectura fácil
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S**9
Schullektüre
Für die Schule und dennoch interessant und spannend.
S**A
Merece la pena
Al igual que los otros dos libros de la autora, este tampoco me ha defraudado. Merece la pena, lectura fácil
H**O
The Glass Castleの著者のお婆さん（祖母）のストーリー
Jeannette Wallsの自叙伝であるベストセラーになった"The Glass Castle"に登場する母 "Rosemary" のお母さん，つまりJeannetteのお婆さんにまつわるお話です。読み始めるとあれっと思われるかもしれませんが，この話を語っているのは著者の言葉でなくお婆さんのLilyが一人称で語る形式になっています。時代は古き良き時代のアメリカを背景にLilyは1901年に (日本は明治34年）牧場を営む父母の間に生まれます。 物語は，lily 10歳，弟のBuster9歳・妹のCasey7歳 (表紙の３人です。）が牧草地で大きな鉄砲水が押し寄せてくる場面から始まります。大洪水の中，なんとかポプラの樹にしがみつき3人は一夜を過ごす。出鼻からドキドキ，ハラハラさせられる展開になりますが，実はこのドキドキ場面は最初から最後まで続きます。 友人の死，妹の問題，失業，離婚の経験（相手は2重結婚をしていた。さらに後に，生活費の為に売ろうとしたダイヤのエンゲージリンクはフェイク物）など次々に襲いかかる逆境にもめげず，Lilyは自分の信じた道を突き進みます。 我が道を突き進むところはどうやら少女時代からのようで，15歳になった彼女は教師になる夢を求めて愛馬のPatches（パッチ）とともに約500mile西の地Red Lake (Arizona)へ向かいます。 804kmもの距離を馬で単身で15歳の少女が旅をする所は結構感動ものです。 彼女はその後Jimとの間に2児をもうけます。（長女のRosemaryとlittle Jim。） 長女のRosemaryが著者であるJannetteを生むところあたりでお話は終わります。大胆不敵なLily, そしてそれに負けない程頑なRosemary。の性格は著者へもどうやら受け継がれているとか。。。 読んでいて少しメモをしたくなる様な名言???もちらほらと。 少し気に入った一部を紹介します。 First thing a horse needs to learn is to be a horse," he liked to say. "Life's too short, honey," I said, "to worry what other people think of you." "Everything in life has a purpose and unless it achieves its purpose, it's just taking up space on the planet and wasting everybody's time." この物語はほぼ事実に忠実なのですが，多少手を加えているとのことで，正確には"True-Life Novel"とういう肩書きになっているようです。
A**R
A very good read
A very interesting story of a very interesting and at times, harsh life. Well written and easy to read. It is mainly the story of the struggle of one woman to overcome adversity. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
S**S
Based on factual events
A great read for anyone who loves horses!
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