Book description
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.
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
Pulphead
. Sullivan lives in Wilmington, North Carolina.
