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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 magazine-is an unprecedented
look at Equus caballus, incorporating elements of memoir,
reportage, and the picture gallery.
In the words of the New York Review of Books, Blood
Horses "reads like Moby-Dick as edited by F. Scott Fitzgerald
. . . Sullivan is an original and greatly gifted writer."
John Jeremiah Sullivan is a writer-at-large
for GQ and a contributing editor at Harper's Magazine.
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