The Horse Whisperer

A Novel

By: Nicholas Evans

Narrated by: Peter Coyote

Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins

Publisher's summary

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.

The horse whisperer

Enjoyed the story very much.
But the recording needs to be redone sounds like it is very old and at times the music is louder than the reading.

Great story

The novel is great. Peter Coyote’s narration is terrific. The only problem is muddled audio in the occasional passages that have a music background.

Excellent book!

Enjoyed everything about the book. The audio was good ,but the times that the background music played, it was hard to understand the dialogue. Music not necessary.

Hard to hear because of annoying music.

I've seen the movie so I can assume the story was great, but I couldn't get past the first 15 minutes because of the annoying music. bad purchase.

The audio quality is terrible!

the audio quality is so bad that I couldn't even make it 10 minutes into the book. the story itself is wonderful, but the narrator sounds like he's talking into a tin can. there's weird music playing in the background it sounds like somebody recorded it with the radio on in the background. Do not purchase this recording.

Good Book, just not this readng of it.

What disappointed you about The Horse Whisperer?

Made in the day when audible books had not come of age yet.

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Horrible quality

What would have made The Horse Whisperer better?

This sounds like someone made a copy from a well worn cassette tape. You can't even tell it's Peter Coyote reading and he has such a wonderful voice to listen to. This should sound digital, and it does not.

Any additional comments?

This is one of my favorite books, and I had the recording of Peter Coyote's reading for years. I think my copy of the cassette tapes sound better than this recording.

Peter Coyote is My Favorite Narrator!

Would you consider the audio edition of The Horse Whisperer to be better than the print version?

Unfortunately, as much as I like Peter Coyote's narration, the music was awful. It was distracting and often made it difficult to hear the narration. What are they thinking?!? When I need an audible book, my first search is for this narrator. I have also gotten some books both written and recorded by him. He is a real jewel.

Any additional comments?

I knew this was likely to be kind of smarmy but I loved it anyway. Not my usual fair but just what I needed at this time.

Great Book

The music was very distracting 😞 but overall a good performance. I love this story and also the subject matter.

Recording sucks

This is one of my all time favorite books and it is being read like a guy in a can for a microphone😡😩😢