Der Pferdeflüsterer : der Bildband zum Film

by Gretel Ehrlich

Just as Robert Redford is not a typical movie star, Gretel Ehrlich is not some run-of-the-mill hack hired to bat out a "making-of" book for a movie. Ehrlich is a prizewinning writer with grants from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation, and she knows her way around the wide-open spaces of The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans's adventure-romance about a maimed girl, her wounded horse, her horrible New York fast-track mother, and the mystical horseman who helps everybody heal and attain higher consciousness. By deciding to direct and star in the film from the book, Redford helped make it the most successful unpublished novel in it earned $8.15 million while still being written. He did not stint in hiring a writer to do this movie tie-in book. Ehrlich, who spent 17 years working on sheep and cattle ranches, poured into this assignment some of the authentic western flavor of her nonfiction books The Solace of Open Spaces and A Match to the One Woman's Story of Being Struck by Lightning. Here, Ehrlich puts Redford's horseman character in his proper context. All this and 141 color photographs, too! --Tim Appelo

157 pages, Paperback

First published May 11, 1998

About the author

Gretel Ehrlich is an American travel writer, novelist, essayist, and poet born on a horse ranch near Santa Barbara, California and educated at both Bennington College in Vermont and UCLA film school. After working in film for 10 years and following the death of a loved one, she began writing full-time in 1978 while living on a Wyoming ranch where she had been filming. Her first book, The Solace of Open Spaces, is a collection of essays describing her love of the region.

Reviews

[Trudy Nye · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book has wonderful pictures of horses and Montana Big Sky country and very interesting text. It covers a lot of information about horses in general and their history as well as talking about the characters and plot of the movie The Horse Whisperer. I haven't seen the movie, nor have I read the novel upon which the movie is based, but after reading this book, I will probably do both.

[Jan · Rating 2 out of 5]

I read this shortly after publication and yes, have seen the film more than once. I did not read any more from the author until last week. Facing the Wave, The Solace of Open Spaces & now sent for the used books. A beautiful reading experience for one late to the gifts.

[Frankizoid]

I mark it to read