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Yellow Jersey Press
22 January 2015
From the critically acclaimed author of Pulphead comes a wise, humorous and often

beautiful memoir exploring the relationship between man and horse and the relationship between sons and fathers

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. The result is Blood Horses, a wise, humorous and often beautiful memoir exploring the relationship between man and horse and the relationship between a sportswriter's son and his late father.

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Imprint:   Yellow Jersey Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 18mm
Weight:   199g
ISBN:   9780224092296
ISBN 10:   0224092294
Pages:   272
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  ELT Advanced ,  Primary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

John Jeremiah Sullivan is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and the southern editor of The Paris Review. He writes for GQ, Harper's Magazine, and Oxford American, and is the author of Blood Horses and Pulphead. Sullivan lives in Wilmington, North Carolina.

Reviews for Blood Horses

An interestingly wayward memoir, exploring [...] the vibrant mixture of equine beauty and human ugliness to be found on the racetrack -- Jane Shilling Evening Standard A great father-son memoir, and a good book about horses, too -- William Leith, 4 stars Scotsman As a memoir, an elegy and a piece of investigative journalism, it dazzles The Economist Iridescent Sunday Times Amply researched and gracefully told New Yorker


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