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Blood Horses: Notes of a Sportswriter's Son
John Jeremiah Sullivan
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| #649641 in Books | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 2004-04-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 1.08 x5.82 x8.52l, | File type: PDF | 272 pages | Great product!||2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Father and Son|By F. Tyler B. Brown|"Blood Horses: Notes of a Sportswriter's Son", the first book from writer John Jeremiah Sullivan, is an exploration of the horse as literary motif, a son's love poem for his dead father, and a masterful writer's first attempt to wrestle his talents into a full-length book. To understand Sullivan, and his second book of essays, Pulphead: Essay|From Publishers Weekly|Horse racing does not lend itself easily to the drama and characters of most sports, because, as the author puts it, "when your Sammy Sosa has four legs, cannot speak, and has, to all appearances, no idea what people are so worked up about
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?"
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 inscrutable passions in his Kentucky relatives. But...
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