Blood Horses Notes of a Sportswriter's Son

Name: Blood Horses Notes of a Sportswriter's Son
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ISBN: 9780312423766

ISBN-10: 0312423764

ISBN-13: 9780312423766

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Authors: John Jeremiah Sullivan, Jeremiah Sullivan Johnson

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"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…

Book details

List price: $23.00
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 4/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.61" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

John Jeremiah Sullivanis a writer at large forGQ,a contributing editor atHarper’s Magazine,and the southern editor ofThe Paris Review.He is the winner of a Whiting Writers’ Award for emerging writers and a National Magazine Award for feature writing. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, he currently lives in Wilmington, North Carolina, with his wife and two daughters. He is the author ofBlood Horses(FSG, 2004).