![]() They also overcome their differences and prejudices to band together to lend a paw, claw, wing, or hoof to each other and, eventually, a lonely, orphaned 8-year-old boy. ![]() The animals - her titular racehorse, who converses with an elegant shorthaired German pointer, a haughty raven, a squabbling pair of mallards, and a rat pining for a mate - share their hardships, fears, needs, and dreams. Nor is this the first time that the author, best known for A Thousand Acres, her Pulitzer Prize-winning homage to King Lear, has gone light: Moo and Ten Days in the Hills are both satires.īut this delightful, heartwarming tale about creatures living in the rough in Paris's Champs de Mars is something new for Smiley, and it's an appealing balm for harsh times. The title character of Jane Smiley's new novel, Perestroika in Paris - her first since she completed her massive The Last Hundred Years trilogy in 2015 - is a talking horse! Of course, horses have trotted through the pages of plenty of Smiley's books, including Horse Heaven and most of her Young Adult novels. ![]() ![]() It's such a joy when an author whose work you've been reading for decades surprises you with something unexpected. ![]()
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