On Swift Horses

On Swift Horses is the great American novel that needed to be written,and yet couldn't be, at the time when it is set, the late 1950's, when Americans stopped looking west and started looking up. It was a time of atom bombs, of housing booms, of the emergence of gambling as sport and sexual revolution. A breathtakingly beautiful novel of chance and the gambles we take with the human heart. For readers of Anne Proulx and Anne Patchett.