The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans

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Bibliographic Details

• Author: Nicholas Evans
• Title: The Horse Whisperer
• Publisher: ‎ Delacorte Press
• Publication Date: October 1995
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Hardcover – 404 pages
• ISBN-10: 0385315236
• ISBN-13: 978-0385315234
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.75 pounds
• Dimensions: 6.5 x 1.3 x 9.5 inches
• Book Condition: Used – Very Good (minor markings on page edges)
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good (shows some minimal shelf wear)

Synopsis:

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A compelling portrait of three people who love each other but can't break through the self-created walls that keep them apart.”—Chicago Sun-Times

A forty-ton truck hurtles out of control on a snowy country road, a teenage girl on horseback in its path.

In a few terrible seconds the life of a family is shattered. And a mother's quest beings – to save her maimed daughter and a horse driven mad by pain. It is an odyssey that will bring her to…THE HORSE WHISPERER. He is the stuff of legend. His voice can calm wild horses and his touch heal broken spirits. For secrets uttered softly into pricked and troubled ears, such men were once called Whisperers.

Now Tom Booker, the inheritor of this ancient gift, is to meet his greatest challenge. Annie Graves has traveled across a continent with her daughter, Grace, and their wounded horse, Pilgrim, to the Booker ranch in Montana.

Annie has risked everything – her career, her marriage, her comfortable life – in her desperate belief that the Whisperer can help them. The accident has turned Pilgrim savage. He is now so demented and dangerous that everyone says he should be destroyed. But Annie won't give up on him. For she feels his fate is inextricably entwined with that of he daughter, who has retreated into a heartrending, hostile silence. Annie knows that if the horse dies, something in Grace will die too.

In the weeks to come, under the massive sky of the Rocky Mountain Front, all their lives – including Tom Booker's – will be transformed forever in a way none could have foretold.

At once an epic love story and a gripping adventure, The Horse Whisperer weaves an extraordinary tale of healing and redemption – a magnificent emotional journey that explores our ancient bonds with earth and sky and hearts untamed. It is a stirring elegy to the power of belief and self-discovery, to hopes lost and found again.

About the Author:

Nicholas Benbow Evans (26 July 1950 – 9 August 2022) was a British journalist, screenwriter, television and film producer and novelist.

Nicholas Evans studied law at Oxford University after serving in Africa with Voluntary Service Overseas. He then worked as a newspaper reporter, TV producer, and screenwriter before writing four bestselling novels. His first book, The Horse Whisperer was made into a movie directed by Robert Redford.

Evans died from a heart attack at his home on 9 August 2022, aged 72. Media sources differed on whether he died in London or in Totnes, Devon.