by Jeannette Walls · France Loisirs · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782298049930
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«Des chevaux sauvages, ou presque» is the novel by Jeannette Walls, published by France Loisirs in paperback (404 pages, in French).
The novel recreates the life of Lily Casey Smith, the author's grandmother, born in 1901 as the eldest of three siblings. With a very strong personality, Lily grows up in the American West and survives tornadoes, droughts and financial hardship, in a portrait of an era of change and of a woman determined to make her way.
The edition is from 2011 and the cover reproduces an old black-and-white photograph of three children in front of a wooden house.
For those who enjoy fictionalised biographies and stories of personal overcoming with a historical backdrop.
Jeannette Walls is an American author and journalist widely known as former gossip columnist for MSNBC.com and author of The Glass Castle, a memoir of the nomadic family life of her childhood. Published in 2005, it had been on the New York Times Best Seller list for 421 weeks as of June 3, 2018. She is a 2006 recipient of the Alex Award and Christopher Award.
