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.
Sullivan is an original and greatly gifted writer.. . .
Scott Fitzgerald .
In the words of the New York Review of Books , Blood Horses reads like Moby-Dick as edited by F.
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. 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.
That was ...
I was at Secretariat\'s Derby, in \'73.
The answer came as a surprise.
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
