The God of Animals

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• The God of Animals By Aryn Kyle

  Six months before Polly Cain drowned in the canal, my sister, Nona, ran off and married a cowboy. So begins Aryn Kyle's moving coming-of-age tale set on a horse farm in Desert Valley, Colorado; they are the words of Kyle's young protagonist, Alice Wi ... (read full critics)

  bookpage published on Wed, 15 Sep 2010

• Book review: Aryn Kyle's *The God of Animals*

  The God of Animals Aryn Kyle Scribner Hardcover 320 pages March 2007 The God of Animals , set on a horse ranch and stables in the American West, is an amazingly good and original first novel. Kyle has written about horses before: in 2004, her short s ... (read full critics)

  curledup published on Tue, 7 Sep 2010

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  This was an entertaining book, but was just a little too much to take too seriously. The character's (a 12 yo girl) life is full of problems which all seem poised to collide at some point and not only do they not collide in some big conflagration, but many are not resolved at all. Everything from ... (continue)

  This was an entertaining book, but was just a little too much to take too seriously. The character's (a 12 yo girl) life is full of problems which all seem poised to collide at some point and not only do they not collide in some big conflagration, but many are not resolved at all. Everything from the tough father doing his best, which isn't really good enough, to the mother having remained upstairs with depression for 12 years (!?), to the here-to-fore "perfect" sister running away with her boyfriend, to an alcoholic teacher who appears to prey on 12 year old girls looking for some kind of misguided emotional closeness, etc etc. Very little was resolved satisfactorily. In addition, the book was full of inaccuracies about horses and horse showing and running a horse-related business, which was frustrating because the whole book takes place within that context.

  However, despite all these frustrations, it was still fun to read and written fairly well. I'm just not sure who I would recommend it to.

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• English Books
• Hardcover 320 Pages
• Edition: 1
• ISBN-10: 1416533249
• ISBN-13: 9781416533245
• Publisher: Scribner
• Pub date: Mar 01, 2007
• Dimensions: 1484 mm x 1032 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?

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