![]() Really, a triumph? As always, readers are urged to decide for themselves and share their impressions, either online at (just type "book club" in the "Jump to" box and weigh in) or by mail at The Chronicle-BayTV Book Club, 901 Mission St., San Francisco, CA 94103. That we take the animals' thoughts, emotions and memories seriously is one of the real triumphs of the book." Ed in literary garb - the animals' point of view (like the humans') is complex, persuasive and thought-provoking. The material about luck leads to musings about what one can and cannot know about a horse's future performance, and thus to questions about an individual's ability to control circumstances. "(Smiley) pulls it all off by writing flawlessly, but also because her book turns on questions about luck and choice. ![]() Writing last week on the cover of Book Review - just a coincidence, book club handicappers - novelist Debra Spark had this to say about it: ![]() It's an epic comic novel with more than 50 characters, not all of them bipeds. In "Horse Heaven," Smiley moves from the death of kings to the sport of kings. ![]()
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