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Blood Horses : Notes of a Sportswriter's Son
Author: John Jeremiah Sullivan
Binding: Hardcover
Published: 01 April, 2004
ISBN: 0374172811
$16.80
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Blood Horses : Notes of a Sportswriter's Son
by: John Jeremiah Sullivan
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Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.1 / 5.0 
A love story: 
The major shortcoming of this book is that it ends too soon! The reader is left wishing for more. Blood Horses meanders through fascinating history and beautiful literature of horses, while at the same time it keeps the reader on pins and needles, wanting to hear more of the wonderfully funny (I kept laughing out loud) very touching stories of the author's childhood. It is an engaging and humorous exploration of the world of horse racing and training; and, it is an extraordinarily loving, elegant... more info
One man's story about Dad, and a lot of stuff about horses:
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... more info
People who don't get it...:
...shouldn't blame the author. This is a phenomenal book. Blood Horses is partly an experiment in narrative technique. Like most literary experiments, it has its less-than successful moments. There are places where the author's allusions to and quotations from other texts get overwhelming. But the book also contains some of the most amazing pages of flat-out writing I've come across in a long time--about horses, about pain, and about beauty. Given its ambitious scope the structure holds together... more info
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