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‘It’s not true,’ says a character in Jane Smiley’s funny, passionate and brilliant new novel, ‘that anything can happen at the racetrack,’ but many astonishing and affecting things do – and in Horse Heaven the universe of horse racing – passionate, cold-hearted, pure, corrupt – is woven into a marvellous tapestry of joy and love, chicanery, folly, greed and reckless courage (back cover).
