The 10 Best Books of 2009
(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-12-10 10:47
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HALF BROKE HORSES: A True-Life Novel
By Jeannette Walls
Scribner, $26.
In her luminous memoir, “The Glass Castle,”Walls told of being raised by eccentric and unfit parents. Now, in a novel based on family lore, she has adopted the voice of her maternal grandmother, Lily Casey Smith — mustang breaker, schoolteacher, ranch wife, bootlegger, poker player, racehorse rider and bush pilot. The result -re-animates a chapter of America’s frontier past.