Blood Horses: Notes of a Sportswriter's Son John Jeremiah Sullivan (Author)
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Horses
"Sullivan has found the transcendent in the horse."--Sports Illustrated
Winner of a 2004 Whiting Writers' Award
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."
- Rank: #32867 in Books
- Published on: 2005-04-01
- Released on: 2005-03-24
- Format: Bargain Price
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 272 pages
Description #1 by TextbookX.com:
Author: Johnson, Jeremiah Sullivan, Sullivan, John Jeremiah ISBN-10: 0312423764
Description #2 by ValoreBooks.com:
Blood Horses Notes Of A Sportswriter's Son, ISBN-13: 9780312423766, ISBN-10: 0312423764
Description #3 by BzOverstock:
DIVSullivan has found the transcendent in the horse.--iSports Illustrated/iBRBRWinner of a 2004 Whiting Writers' AwardBRBROne 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?BRBRJohn 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 aiNational Magazine/iAward and named a Book of the Year byiThe Economist/imagazine-is an unprecedented look at Equus caballus, incorporating elements of memoir, reportage, and the picture gallery.BRBRIn the words of theiNew York Review of Books/i,iBlood Horses/ireads like Moby-Dick as edited by F. Scott Fitzgerald . . . Sullivan is an original and greatly gifted writer.BR/divDIVP style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0ptBJohn Jeremiah Sullivan/Bis a writer-at-large forIGQ/I, a contributing editor atIHarper's Magazine/I.BR/P/DIVDIVDIVDIVBWinner of the Whiting Writers' AwardBR/B/DIVP style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt /PP style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0ptOne 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?BRBRJohn Jeremiah Sullivan didn't know, not really: the track had always been a place his father disappeared to once a year on business, a source of souvenir glasses and of inscrutable passions in his Kentucky relatives. So Sullivan decided to educate himself. He spent two years following horses across the country. He watched one season's juvenile crop prepare for the
