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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.

Produktbeschreibung
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.
Autorenporträt
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.