Blood horses: notes of a sportwriter's son

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"Sullivan has found the transcendent in the horse."--Sports IllustratedWinner of a 2004 Whiting Writers' AwardOne 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."

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Autor: John Jeremiah Sullivan

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JOHN JEREMIAH SULLIVAN

John Jeremiah Sullivan
Filho do escritor esportivo Mike Sullivan, John Jeremiah Sullivan nasceu em 1974, em Louisville, Kentucky (EUA). Seu primeiro livro Blood horses: notes of a sportswriter's son, publicado em 2004, aborda suas lembranças de infância e investiga a história dos cavalos de corrida de sangue puro. Já Pulphead: essays (2011) é uma antologia de 14 artigos publicados em sua coluna na Paris Review, Mister Lytle: An Essay. Os textos se concentram em sua longa convivência com Andrew Nelson Lytle nos anos 1990 – enquanto ele o ajudava com tarefas domésticas o dramaturgo lhe dava lições de vida e literatura.