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Title	:	Horse Heaven
Author	:	Jane Smiley
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 640 pages
Published	:	August 26th 2003 by Ballantine Books (first published 1999)
Categories	:	Fiction. Animals. Horses. Contemporary

Horse Heaven

Jane Smiley

Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 640 pages

Rating: 3.88 | 4897 Users | 363 Reviews

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"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 marvelous tapestry of joy and love, chicanery, folly, greed, and derring-do.

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 Wal-Mart, prays, "Please make something happen here . . . This time, I mean it," and something does . . . Farley, a good trainer in a bad slump; Buddy, a ruthless trainer who can't seem to lose even though he knows that his personal salvation depends upon it; Roberto, an apprentice jockey who has "the hands" but is growing too big for his dream career with every passing day; Leo the gambler and his earnest son, Jesse, who understands everything about his father's "system" except why it doesn't work; Elizabeth, the 62-year-old theorist of sex and animal communication, and her best friend, Joy, the mare manager at the ranch at the center of the universe—all are woven together by the horses that pass among them: Two colts and two fillies who begin with the promise of talent and breeding, and now might or might not achieve stardom.

There are the geldings—Justa Bob, the plain brown horse who always wins by a nose, a lovable claimer who passes from owner to owner on a heart-wrenching journey down from the winner's circle; and the beautiful Mr. T., raced in France and rescued in Texas, who is discovered to have some unusual and amazing talents.

And then there is the Jack Russell terrier, Eileen, a dog with real convictions—and the will to implement them.

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.

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Original Title:	Horse Heaven
ISBN:	0804119430 (ISBN13: 9780804119436)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Shortlist (2001)

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Let's get it out in the open. I love Horse Racing!!!! I have been to many of the tracks where Smiley sets her book, as well as many smaller locations where I swear the horses plow the north 40 in the day and race by night. But horse racing still remains the domaine of the rick, populated by horse people who train, groom and care for the horses. I think this is anther top flight effort by Smiley as she takes us month by month through the racing year. She is at her best when her months around 30

Fascinating portrayal of the thoroughbred horseracing world.How does Jane Smiley do it? Her books are all completely unique. There is no formula; no predictability (you could say she is an anti-Ian McEwan). The story is set in the thoroughbred racing world of Southern California. The story, and the human beings involved are involving. But what set this book apart for me? Two of the main characters are animals. One of the racehorses, and, a dog. A Jack Russell Terrier to be more precise. And let

640 pages! Too long. I would have given it 5 stars, but for the length. It's about Thoroughbreds and owners and trainers and horses and love! Very enjoyable, but some of the characters were dropped at a point in the middle and then quickly reintroduced at the end. Some of the chapters felt like a New Yorker story. But, all in all, enjoyable.

A rambling book with many evocative characters, human and equine, that will stick with me. I haven't cried over a book in a while but one particular scene was so wrenching that it had me sobbing as I read.

Jane Smiley's novel about horse racing is one of the best books I have read this summer. It was loaned to me by my sister-in-law, a horse woman herself and daughter of a horse woman. Jane Smiley owns a race horse or two and clearly knows plenty about the subject. A big part of the book's success is the way she makes the horses characters in the story as much as she does the humans.I knew nothing about the world of horse racing, except that people like to go to the races and bet money. I learned

Added 7/26/12. (first published 1999)July 6, 2018 - I borrowed this ebook from our public library.July 9, 2018 - I am giving up on this book! I read 32% of the book. It is too hard to follow because there are too many characters and too many scene shifts. Very confusing and frustrating. The following GR review agrees with me:=========================="This was an awful book...I read to page 155 trying to give it a chance but it had way too many characters and every chapter was a page and a half

I fell in love with a race horse named Justa Bob...