Horse Heaven Jane Smiley by Jane Smiley 9780375412660, 0375412662, B009BPBV2Q instant download after payment.

"It's not true," says a character in Jane Smiley's funny, passionate, and brilliant new novel of horse racing, "that anything can happen at the racetrack," but many astonishing and affecting things do — and in Horse Heaven, we find them woven into a marvellous tapestry of joy and love, chicanery, folly, greed, and derring-do.

"Witty, energetic... It's deeply satisfying to read a work of fiction so informed about its subject and so alive to every nuance and detail... [Smiley's] final chapters have a wonderfully restorative quality."  - The New York Times Book Review

Haunting, exquisite Rosalind Maybrick, wife of a billionaire owner, one day can't quite decide what it is she wants and discovers too late that her whole life is transformed. Twenty-year-old Tiffany Morse, stuck in her job at Walmart, prays, "Please make something happen here...This time, I mean it," and something does... Two colts and two fillies who begin with the promise of talent and breeding, and now might or might not achieve stardom.

"One of the premier novelists of her generation possessed of a mastery of craft and an uncompromising vision that grow more powerful with each book... Racing's eclectic mix of classes and personalities provides Smiley with fertile soil... Expertly juggling storylines, she investigates the sexual, social, psychological, and spiritual problems of wealthy owners, working-class bettors, trainers on the edge of financial ruin, and, in a typically bold move, horses."  -  The Washington Post

The strange, compelling, sparkling, and mysterious universe of horse racing that has fascinated generations of punters and robber barons, horse lovers and wits, has never before been depicted with such verve and originality, such tenderness, such clarity, and, above all, such sheer exuberance.