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Title: Blood Horses: Notes of a Sportwriter's Son by John Jeremiah Sullivan ISBN: 0-374-17281-1 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 01 April, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.57 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An incredibly powerful book!
Comment: After hearing the author read at a book signing at our local bookstore, I went home and started the book. I could not put it down! A beautifully written, powerful book written with scholarship, conviction and courage. If you have not found this book yet, you must! It is an exceptional read!
Rating: 2
Summary: Not about blood horses
Comment: I didn't like this book. It's written by a member of the MTV generation with a short attention span. It's not about race horses--and he clearly didn't learn much about the industry--and it's not about his relationship with his father, although his writing of some descriptions can be effective. It's just a compendium of ideas pulled by his own jerky centrifugal force into his ambit as he worked on the book. What do paragraphs about the horrors inflicted on war horses have to do with the topic? He's a young liberal who likes to say nasty things about the people who provide jobs to others. Very misleading title.
Rating: 5
Summary: One man's story about Dad, and a lot of stuff about horses
Comment: This is a breath-taking book. I picked it up at the library, thinking it was about race horses. It's not, really. But I'm buying for my own, anyway.
The horses are in there, with tales of Secretariat and War Emblem, horses carrying soldiers to war, hobby-horses, and the bond between humans and horses. But not in the way you expect.
This is a story about a sportswriter father, written by his son. But it's more than that. It's about being at the Keeneland yearling sale on September 10 and 11th 2001. It's about hearing his father's story of the 1973 Triple Crown races and the man as a boy sitting in the press box after a baseball game watching his father interact with his fellow newspapermen. It's about that moment in your life when you first see the human being, not the parent, and coming to terms with it. And a lot of other stuff that is hard to explain but makes perfect sense as you read it. It roams from Woodstock, to 1830's Germany, to the 1800's journal of a Kentucky itinerate well-digger, to the 2003 Belmont Stakes and ends in a way that is a perfect tribute in so many ways you have to have read it for me to explain it.
The last time I was so taken by a book was John Irving's The World According to Garp. But this is real life, and it tastes of it. Buy it if you are interested in horses - or in humans. Or in both.
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Title: A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money & Luck by Jane Smiley ISBN: 1400040582 Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Pub. Date: 01 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Betting on Myself: Adventures of a Horseplayer and Publisher by Steven Crist ISBN: 097264010X Publisher: DRF Press (Daily Racing Form) Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Funny Cide: How a horse, a trainer, a jockey, and a bunch of high school buddies took on the sheiks and blue bloods ... and won by Sally Jenkins ISBN: 0399151796 Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons Pub. Date: 22 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Secretariat: The Making of a Champion by William Nack ISBN: 0306811332 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: 02 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Finished Lines: A Collection of Memorable Writing on Thoroughbred Racing by Frank R. Scatoni, Frank Scatoni ISBN: 0970014732 Publisher: Daily Racing Form Pr Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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