The Horse Whisperer
by Nicholas Evans

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Book Review: The Horse Whisperer and it is a very articulate, touching, e
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The book is very touching from the start. It is a modern dream like family with all things going right, and then... one day their whole world changes. A teen-aged girl becomes hospitalized and comatose. Her horse almost killed defending her from 80 tons of truck and cargo. The mother who is desperate to keep their world from crashing in on them, takes them on a hell bent trek trying to save the horse and her daughter. She wants to put all the broken pieces back in some form or semblance of order. This book may present an enlightening insight to our own lives as Nicholas Evans is able to show us part of ourselves. The book has shown and presented even me some very parallel situations, trials, tribulations and looks at our own lives. It covers most all of life's situations. He presents views of a young adolescent pre-teen growing up, a woman who has to decide on -either her career, -the family, -love, -and -life in general, a father who feels his family has left him out in the cold, and also how a separate man dealt with a failed marriage and the near final enlightening thoughts... does this lone ranger of a man always win?

Mystifying is the book and also the most intricate and important character in the book. How can one character even atempt to take care of a family whom he knows nothing of and must save all of their lives from crumbling. Who is this you wonder..? It is a stalwart of a man who is to horses what Doctor Dolittle is to wild animals just his presence can calm the huge animal. Yet, his own truths and values are to be tested by love.

Yes, it is still possible for a first time author to put a gripping saga that is touching, enlightening, and mystifying to most every reader. There is more too.. There is romance, mild intimacies and humor. This book like other best sellers also has a movie out. Unfortunately the movie does no justice to the book. So for the best seat in the theater I say do not go see the movie. Find a place of solitude and sit back and watch one of the best shows your own imagination has put on. The book The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans and first published 1995 by Delacorte Press. New York New York and In paperback by Dell books isavailable at most bookstores and on-line

Summary of The Horse Whisperer

One morning while teenage Grace Maclean is riding Pilgrim, her goofy, loveable pony, she has a horrendous glass-shattering, bone-splintering, ligament-lynching meeting with a megaton truck that leaves her and her four-legged friend damaged in mind, body, and spirit. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, her jaded, brilliant, bitchy mom, Annie Graves (Kristin Scott Thomas in the 1998 film) is working out a wrinkle in her self-absorbed existence when she gets a call at her plush, Manhattan office about Grace's accident. Racked with guilt, Graves makes it her calling to find the mythical horse whisperer, an equine Zen master who has the ability to heal horses (and broken souls) with soothing words and a gentle touch. Just when it seems he can't be found, what do you know, she finds him. He arrives in the form of Tom Booker-- a rugged, sensitive, dreamy cowboy who helps Pilgrim and Grace repair their fractured selves. To add more mesquite to fire, Booker has a way with not-so-injured, attractive, married women--like Annie. As the plot thickens, so does the familial strife, which threatens to undo Booker's healing work.

Like an expert cinematographer, Evans deftly crafts each scene with precision and clarity, sprinkling in ominous signs and foreboding images. For example, in the opening paragraphs, as Annie starts out on the tragic ride, she comes across a bloody bird wing that seems to have fallen out of nowhere. The weight of impending doom is further strengthened by the truck driver's bad luck--he has a run-in with the highway patrol just moments before his meeting with Grace and Pilgrim. These not-so-subtle subliminal messages are masterfully stitched in throughout the story and may compel readers to act as if they were watching a B-grade horror movie, shouting aloud, "Don't go there!" However sentimental, The Horse Whisperer is an engaging read, sort of like a finely tuned, well-edited film. --Rebekah Warren

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