The story concerns the lives of numerous owners, trainers, assistant trainers, farm managers, jockeys, vets, bettors and grooms, all interrelated, at least loosely, by their relationship to a handful of horses whose fortunes the novel tracks. And this despite the fact that for 561 pages, Smiley, author of "Moo" and the Pulitzer Prize-winning "A Thousand Acres," never strays from her one subject: the world of thoroughbred horse racing.Īnchored by the calendar of the racing circuit, "Horse Heaven" starts the day after the 1977 Breeder's Cup at Hollywood Park and ends after the same race in 1999. Odds are, even those who've never been to a racetrack and who don't particularly care for horses will nonetheless find Jane Smiley's new novel, "Horse Heaven," an absorbing read.
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