{"product_id":"blood-horses-notes-of-a-sportswriters-son-9780312423766","title":"Blood Horses: Notes of a Sportswriter's Son","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the award-wining author of \u003ci\u003ePulphead\u003c\/i\u003e, John Jeremiah Sullivan's first book, \u003ci\u003eBlood Horses, \u003c\/i\u003e combines personal reflections about his father and an in-depth look at the history and culture of Thoroughbred racehorses. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWinner of a 2004 Whiting Writers' Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sullivan has found the transcendent in the horse.\"--\u003ci\u003eSports Illustrated\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne 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?\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJohn 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\u003ci\u003e National Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e Award and named a Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e magazine-is an unprecedented look at Equus caballus, incorporating elements of memoir, reportage, and the picture gallery. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the words of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBlood Horses\u003c\/i\u003e \"reads like Moby-Dick as edited by F. Scott Fitzgerald . . . Sullivan is an original and greatly gifted writer.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Jeremiah Sullivan is a writer-at-large for \u003ci\u003eGQ\u003c\/i\u003e and a contributing editor at \u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50692659413266,"sku":"9780312423766","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5533c54e-a86b-4b6f-9ffd-5fa98a612cc0.jpg?v=1734130872","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/blood-horses-notes-of-a-sportswriters-son-9780312423766","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}