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Blood Horses
- Notes of a Sportswriter's Son
- Narrated by: John Jeremiah Sullivan
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
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Publisher's Summary
"Sullivan has found the transcendent in the horse." (Sports Illustrated)
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 and reportage.
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."
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- Greg M
- 01-11-21
Terrific Debut!
I initially discovered the writing of JJS by stumbling upon his article in GQ magazine. I was immediately hooked and read everything else I could find by him. His writing style is very unique - part introspective, part dreamy, and always firmly rooted in the classic works of American writers. When Audible (cleverly) notified me that he has a book coming out, I pre-ordered right away.
The wait was totally worth it. While I was initially surprised that he chose to use a very similar tone and approach as his essays, because of that the book quickly felt comfortable and familiar. I know that some people are attracted to the book because of the main subject matter (horse racing). To me that was almost not important, but I learned SO much. The story of his troubled relationship with his father, and his father's life is also very interesting, and relatable. The personal musings are fantastic, and would be very familiar to people who have read his other works. The fact that the book is read by John himself, only adds to the experience.
I highly recommend that you pick up this book. Come for the horses, stay for the writing. Come for the writing, learn about horses. You can't go wrong!
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- Jern
- 06-21-22
Unsung Juggernaut IMHO
Got here by way of Pulphead which I suggest giving a try first and moving over here if that gives you a good feeling inside. He reads his own stuff and I think, like Saunders, it’s delivered better as a result. At the outset I didn’t know hardly anything and did not think I cared about horse racing. At the end, I’m still not sure that I “care” but I was thoroughly immersed and moved by the story. Kind of like DFWs tennis writing. And, to me, this is at its core a story about a boys relationship with his father. It’s a shame this gets shelved in the equestrian section rather than in the great modern novelists section. I won’t do it justice…. Maybe DFW, George Saunders and Eudora Welty in a blender. Whatever it is, it’s solid. Don’t think about it just buy it. This man deserves your money more than you do.
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- Anthony Robertson
- 02-10-21
Moving
The horses are moving. The stories of his dad are moving. They flow together the way members of a herd all seem caught in the same current. This is something only John Jeremiah Sullivan may be able to pull off and I love him for it.
I have been waiting for another collection for years; Pulp Head was a formative experience for me. This is not the same, and it does not disappoint. Thanks John.
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Best-selling author Michael Korda's Horse People is the story - sometimes hilariously funny, sometimes sad and moving, always shrewdly observed - of a lifetime love affair with horses, and of the bonds that have linked humans with horses for more than 10,000 years. It is filled with intimate portraits of the kind of people, rich or poor, Eastern or Western, famous or humble, whose lives continue to revolve around the horse. Korda is a terrific storyteller, and his book is intensely personal and seductive, a joy for everyone who loves horses.
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good yarn for nag lovers
- By bj bell on 03-27-21
By: Michael Korda
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All the Beauty in the World
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
- By: Patrick Bringley
- Narrated by: Patrick Bringley
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Millions of people climb the grand marble staircase to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art every year. But only a select few have unrestricted access to every nook and cranny. They’re the guards who roam unobtrusively in dark blue suits, keeping a watchful eye on the two-million-square-foot treasure house. Caught up in his glamorous fledgling career at The New Yorker, Patrick Bringley never thought he’d be one of them. Then his older brother was diagnosed with fatal cancer, and he found himself needing to escape. So he quit and sought solace in the most beautiful place he knew.
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An art lover’s love story
- By Lisa M. on 02-16-23
By: Patrick Bringley
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Burning Boy
- The Life and Work of Stephen Crane
- By: Paul Auster
- Narrated by: Paul Auster
- Length: 35 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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With Burning Boy, celebrated novelist Paul Auster tells the extraordinary story of Stephen Crane, best known as the author of The Red Badge of Courage, who transformed American literature through an avalanche of original short stories, novellas, poems, journalism, and war reportage before his life was cut short by tuberculosis at age 28.
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My New Go To - Paul Auster.
- By James Bernard Kane on 01-17-23
By: Paul Auster
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Hold Still
- A Memoir with Photographs
- By: Sally Mann
- Narrated by: Sally Mann
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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In this groundbreaking audiobook, a unique interplay of narrative and image, Mann's preoccupation with family, race, mortality, and the storied landscape of the American South are revealed as almost genetically predetermined, written into her DNA by the family history that precedes her.
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Brilliant. But what's up with the PDF?
- By ARK on 06-27-15
By: Sally Mann
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The Adventures of Herbie Cohen
- World's Greatest Negotiator
- By: Rich Cohen
- Narrated by: Paul Adelstein
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Meet Herbie Cohen, World’s Greatest Negotiator, dealmaker, risk taker, raconteur, adviser to presidents and corporations, hostage and arms negotiator, lesson giver and justice seeker, author of the how-to business classic You Can Negotiate Anything. And, of course, Rich Cohen’s father.
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Just average
- By Amazon Customer on 01-13-23
By: Rich Cohen
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Stranger Than Fiction
- True Stories
- By: Chuck Palahniuk
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris, Chuck Palahniuk
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Chuck Palahniuk's world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. These pieces from Stranger Than Fiction, his first nonfiction collection, prove just how different, in ways both highly entertaining and deeply unsettling.
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Excellent and hilarious
- By Brooke P. Anderson on 01-17-05
By: Chuck Palahniuk
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English Creek
- The Montana Trilogy, Book 1
- By: Ivan Doig
- Narrated by: Scott Sowers
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Part of Ivan Doig’s acclaimed Montana trilogy, English Creek revolves around Jick McCaskill, a 14-year-old growing up in 1930s Montana. This incandescent coming-of-age tale dramatizes the climatic events of one summer that inevitably mark Jick’s awakening from childhood to adulthood.
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Read this as book two and Dancing as book one
- By Jan on 05-21-13
By: Ivan Doig
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Never Settle
- Sports, Family, and the American Soul
- By: Marty Smith
- Narrated by: Marty Smith
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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The amazing and blessed life of popular ESPN reporter and correspondent for College GameDay Marty Smith, whose mission in this thoughtful and funny memoir is to return fans to the true soul of sports in this country. Never Settle is the funny but oh, it's true story of how Marty got here, and a revealing look at his journey. Never Settle includes all the best stories and behind-the-scenes moments from Marty's wild life, covering topics including: college football, racing, fathers and sons, and how sports can bring us together.
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Marty Smith did an amazing job with this book
- By Rocky Baker on 08-26-20
By: Marty Smith
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The Road to San Donato
- Fathers, Sons, and Cycling across Italy
- By: Robert Cocuzzo
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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The Road to San Donato is an adventurous and nostalgic bicycling memoir of an American father and son tracing their Italian heritage. Riding rental bikes and carrying a bare minimum of supplies, Rob Cocuzzo and his 64-year-old father, Stephen, embark on a 425-mile ride from Florence to San Donato Val di Comino, an ancient village in the mountains outside of Rome from which the Cocuzzo family emigrated a hundred years earlier.
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Stunning and memorable
- By maida soehl on 03-05-20
By: Robert Cocuzzo
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Harsher Side of Night
- By: George L. Pullen
- Narrated by: Kim Bertrand
- Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Harsher Side of Night is based on a true story of the trials and tribulations of George L. Pullen. This unique story translates the deep experience of a man who loved to ride motorcycles and his fantasy of a female rider who shared many of the same real-life adventures. You'll be captivated by Chris (main character) and her determined journey as a female rider as she strives for her ultimate goal in this life - "becoming the next Super Bike Champion".
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A must read. Never forget.
- By Jess Toler on 01-27-21
By: George L. Pullen
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Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All
- A New Zealand Story
- By: Christina Thompson
- Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All is the story of the cultural collision between Westerners and the Maoris of New Zealand, told partly as a history of the complex and bloody period of contact between Europeans and the Maoris in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and partly as the story of Christina Thompson's marriage to a Maori man.
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a beautiful story
- By Pumpkin99 on 12-24-22
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Fish Out of Water
- A Search for the Meaning of Life: A Memoir
- By: Eric Metaxas
- Narrated by: Eric Metaxas
- Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
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What happens when one of America’s most beloved biographers writes his own biography? For five-time New York Times best-selling author Eric Metaxas, the answer is Fish Out of Water: A Search for the Meaning of Life - a soaring, lyrical, and often mischievous account of his early years, in which the astute Queens-born son of Greek and German immigrants struggles to make sense of a world in which he never quite seems to fit.
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Reliving my childhood
- By Rhinocermom on 02-18-21
By: Eric Metaxas
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The Patch
- By: John McPhee
- Narrated by: John McPhee
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
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The Patch is the seventh collection of essays by the nonfiction master John McPhee. It is divided into two parts. It is an "album quilt", an artful assortment of nonfiction writings that have not previously appeared in any book.
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A thousand details add up to one impression
- By Darwin8u on 11-15-18
By: John McPhee