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of my alltime favorites I go back and reread it from time to time, One of my most favorite books of all time, I couldnt put it down, if you like the horse industry you will love this book, First time I read this book I was, probably not meant for that age, It follows the life of a teen girl who is raised by her father after her mother had died, She has two brothers who molest her, One night she runs away and gains work at a race track, Her life gets better, mostly from there as she moves up the ranks of the track hierarchy from a stable hand to a rich owner.
Filled with intimacy, love and sadness, This book is definitely one for those who love horses as well as a story about the downtrodden rising up.
An epic saga about the Thoroughbred racing and breeding industry as it follows Annie of several last names through a path from abject poverty to the heights of success on the race track and almost back.
It takes Kinsolvingchapters andpages to coalesce his many subplots to a very satisfactory ending, Thanks to my sisterinlaw, Barb, who gave me this book with high recommendations years ago it is stamped discard BHBL Community Library.
I was daunted by the heft but find it was well worth the occasional trudge, I love book based about and around horse racing, This one was pretty good, The heroine, Annie, is introduced to horses and racing at agewhen she saves a thoroughbred for a train wreck.


She runs away from home atand travels to New York and begins working as a hot walker.


She becomes more engrossed in the racing game as she ages, marries money and becomes a breeder/owner.


Her life is filled with triumph and tradgedy in equal measure,

A thrilling ride to the very end, I love this book. The sagaesque storyline, the romance, and the incredible detail that the author goes into regarding the world of thoroughbred racing combine to make this one of my favourites.

Love this book. One of my favourite reads over and over, Great characters and captivating story, Long, good, sad, exciting. Was a very long story that dragged on a bit, Had interesting parts with parts being very sad and having adult references, Had lots of

exciting bits to it too, Betrayals and detemination being a big part I'm this book, A good book though it was very long The story of an astonishing woman, Annie Grebauer, and the two passions of her life: one, Sam Cumberland, the scion of one of the America's greatest racing families the other the magnificent thoroughbreds she and Sam breed and race in competition with each other.


A captivating tale of tragedy and triumph, I had been looking for a book about thoroughbred horse racing, particularly that involved The Kentucky Derby, This book more than met my wishes! I learned a lot about horses in general, the racing world, their training, etc.
And the book also had great romance and mystery, Hated to see it end, An epic horselover's tale based on more of a whinny than a full throated gallop, After a questionable academic career at Stanford I mean, how practical is a double major in Drama and Far Eastern Theology, Kinsolving fled to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival to play Richard the Second.
He then attended The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art for polish, Returning to New York, he appeared as an actor off , under , and on Broadway, as well as a saloon singer in any number of seedy Greenwich Village nightclubs.
For creative diversion during these years, he acted and/or directed back in Oregon, then at the Stratford Shakespeare Theater, Harvard, Dartmouth, Café La Mama, then went and won the Best Actor of the Year award from the SF Chronicle for performing at the Berkeley Rep.
Ineluctably transitioning to a second care After a questionable academic career at Stanford I mean, how practical is a double major in Drama and Far Eastern Theology, Kinsolving fled to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival to play Richard the Second.
He then attended The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art for polish, Returning to New York, he appeared as an actor off , under , and on Broadway, as well as a saloon singer in any number of seedy Greenwich Village nightclubs.
For creative diversion during these years, he acted and/or directed back in Oregon, then at the Stratford Shakespeare Theater, Harvard, Dartmouth, Café La Mama, then went and won the Best Actor of the Year award from the SF Chronicle for performing at the Berkeley Rep.
Ineluctably transitioning to a second career as most do, Kinsolving wrote his first play, was awarded a Ford Foundation Playwriting Grant, and had the play produced by the Stratford Ontario Shakespeare Festival.
This led to the first of somefilms on which he worked for every major studio in Los Angeles, London and Rome as screenwriter and script doctor.
Suspecting that such a life was leading to the corruption of his soul not to dare mention his body, he retreated to northern California to write the first of five novels including several best sellers.
Concurrently while serving on the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of the Arts, he met and was smart enough to marry Susan Kinsolving, the poet.
She presented him with two astonishing daughters, and presently puts up with him in Connecticut, Quixotically between books, he joined the Board of Directors of both The Actors Company, as well as a California biotech corporation.
He regressed indulgently to cabaret and fundraising performances, accompanied by the likes of Peter Duchin and Emmanuel Ax, singing at the Algonquin Hotels late lamented Oak Room and at one of the late Brooke Astors better birthday parties among many other venues.
A sixth novel is finished! Set in ante bellum America, its the first book of a trilogy featuring three brothers and an extraordinary woman.
The second book covers the Civil War from unique perspectives the third, Reconstruction from one off points of view, sitelink.