Mister Boots, Carol Emshwiller
Mister Boots, Carol Emshwiller
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Mister Boots

Author: Carol Emshwiller

Narrator: Suzy Meyers

Unabridged: 5 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/03/2018


Synopsis

Bobby Lassiter has some important secrets—but it’s not as if anyone’s paying attention. It’s the middle of the Depression, and while Bobby’s mother and older sister knit all day to make money, Bobby explores the California desert around their home. That’s how Bobby finds Boots. He’s under their one half-dead tree, halfdead himself. Right away he’s a secret, too—a secret to be fed and clothed and taken care of, and even more of a secret because of what he can do. Sometimes Boots is a man. Sometimes he’s (really, truly) a horse. He and Bobby both know something about magic—and those who read this book will, too.

“A wonderful story about a man who is a horse, and a boy who is a girl—about fake magic and real love—about deaths that are part of living and the pain that pays for joy. I love it.”—Ursula K. Le Guin

About The Author

Carol Emshwiller is the author of many acclaimed novels and story collections, including Carmen Dog, The Start of the End of It All (winner of the World Fantasy Award), Report to the Men’s Club and Other Stories, I Live with You and You Dont’ Know It, and The Mount (winner of the Philip K. Dick Award and a Nebula Award finalist). She teaches in the NYU Continuing Education program, and divides her time between homes in New York City and California. Visit Carol online at www.sfwa.org/members/emshwiller.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kevin on June 21, 2023

Odd tale, oddly endearing. The child's narrative voice is rendered extremely well. Emshwiller has captured that philosophical sparkle that attends a child's view of human relations and morality. Though, ultimately... I don't know, this feels eminently skippable. Maybe my patience with "weird fiction"......more

Goodreads review by Bart on September 25, 2020

An interesting book set in California just before, and during, the Great Depression. The tale involves an abusive father, a young girl pretending to be a boy, her older sister, and a man who is a horse. The book is said to be for children, but the topics raised, and many of the settings would be mor......more

Goodreads review by Marsha on April 23, 2020

During the Great Depression, ten-year-old orphan Bobby befriends an injured were-horse whom she nurses back to health.......more

Goodreads review by Casey on May 08, 2025

What a strange little book this is.......more

Goodreads review by Brook on June 05, 2016

Hard to rate this one. Like the other book by the author I recently read, the flow of time is not always clear. And I don't know if that's intentional. A sentence here and there like "Weeks passed" might help this simpleminded reader. For taking a chance (versus what is out there now) I give this fo......more