![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When she begins, secretly, to bet on the horses and, shockingly, to win, she feels strangely unready to share her good luck and its origins with her husband Lee. As she pours coffee and empties ashtrays, she eavesdrops on her customers, the ex-jockeys and trainers of the Del Mar racetrack. Muriel, newly married and newly orphaned, works as a waitress in a San Diego diner. It is, simply put, a masterpiece.’ – Anthony Marra, author o f A Constellation of Vital Phenomena As an exploration of life lived in the outer distances of plain sight, it is suffused with hazard and touched by grace, furnished with the longevity of a postwar classic and the immediacy of the present tense. On Swift Horses is, for me, one of those books. ![]() ‘Once in a rare while you come across a novel of such transfixing beauty that it enlarges your faith in the medium itself. Set in 1950s America at a time when people stopped looking west and started looking up, On Swift Horses is a breathtakingly beautiful debut novel of revolution, chance and the gambles we take with the human heart. ![]()
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