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The Horse Whisperer

By: Nicholas Evans
Narrated by: Frank Muller
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A 40-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 begins—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 can 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 her 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.

©1995 Nicholas Evans (P)1995 Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, A Division of Random House Inc.
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Audio voice is bad weird, sounds like he’s in a tunel

Don’t like the voice and audio, can’t continue to listen. I’m sure the stories is good by the otherreview

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if the end of the movie...

narration is excellent - and if the end of the movie ever bothered you - make sure to do the book.

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Touching entertaining novel

About modern and old fashion love in contrast with the morals and the pit falls of human desire and aloneness

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Outstanding in Every Category

This book is practically perfect, and gets a “10” score from me. The appeal is not just to horse lovers. It’s a wrenching love story, so well written, I will never forget it.

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What a combination...

...good book and a GREAT reader. Frank could read an owner's manual and draw you in. This is just
'so' much better than the movie. Presented like this it ranks up there with Beach Music and Pillars of the Earth.

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trouble crossing the finish line?

seems the author ran out of steam and just wanted to end it. I enjoyed it right up to the last chapter

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Horse whisperer

Saw the movie years ago and read the paper back as well but this was phenomenal Frank brought this to life it was like you were there. Just phenomenal

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The Horse Whisperer

One of the best books I have ever read, I have listenened to the audio book twice. Will keep it for a few years from now and do it again.

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So Sweet, so innocent, so destroyed by the movie

The book was actually riveting. The writing was smooth, tense and consistently high quality. the characters were real and full. I was so anxious to see the movie, but what a flop. So, if you loved the movie.... you'll go crazy with the real, undiluted, story of love and family and, by the way, horses. If you saw the movie, try hard to forget it and replace that memory with what you hear!

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Love this book!

I have read this book at least three times and watched the movie twice. I prefer the book to the movie, but that's usually what happens when they make a book into a movie. Anyway, I just love this story of a broken horse, a broken girl and her subconsciously unhappy mother being transformed by their encounter with the horse whisperer. The language is rich and beautiful and Frank Muller deserves extra praise for bringing all characters to life and giving each their own unmistakable voice.

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