Blood Horses: Notes of a Sportswriter's Son

From the award-wining author of Pulphead, John Jeremiah Sullivan's first book, Blood Horses, combines personal reflections about...
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Blood Horses: Notes of a Sportswriter's Son by Sullivan, John Jeremiah

Blood Horses: Notes of a Sportswriter's Son

$52.10

Blood Horses: Notes of a Sportswriter's Son

$52.10
Author: John Jeremiah Sullivan
Format: Paperback
Language: English

From the award-wining author of Pulphead, John Jeremiah Sullivan's first book, Blood Horses, combines personal reflections about his father and an in-depth look at the history and culture of Thoroughbred racehorses.

Winner of a 2004 Whiting Writers' Award

Sullivan has found the transcendent in the horse.--Sports Illustrated

One evening late in his life, veteran sportswriter Mike Sullivan was asked by his son what he remembered best from his three decades in the press box. The answer came as a surprise. I was at Secretariat's Derby, in '73. That was ... just beauty, you know?

John Jeremiah Sullivan didn't know, not really-but he spent two years finding out, journeying from prehistoric caves to the Kentucky Derby in pursuit of what Edwin Muir called our long-lost archaic companionship with the horse. The result-winner of a National Magazine Award and named a Book of the Year by The Economist magazine-is an unprecedented look at Equus caballus, incorporating elements of memoir, reportage, and the picture gallery.

In the words of the New York Review of Books, Blood Horses reads like Moby-Dick as edited by F. Scott Fitzgerald . . . Sullivan is an original and greatly gifted writer.

Author: John Jeremiah Sullivan
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 04/01/2005
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780312423766


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 05/22/2005 pg. 32

About the Author

John Jeremiah Sullivan is a writer-at-large for GQ and a contributing editor at Harper's Magazine.




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