Fine Place to Daydream (eBook)

Racehorses, Romance, and the Irish

Bill Barich (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
240 Seiten
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-63450-945-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Twenty-five years after his racetrack classic Laughing in the Hills, Bill Barich tells the story of how he fell in love and found a new life in Dublin, where he was soon caught up in the Irish obsession with horses and luck. Barich travels throughout his adopted country and meets the leading trainers and jockeys, the beleaguered bookies who work rain or shine, and a host of passionate, like-minded fansfrom Father Sean Breen, the Racing Priest, to T. P. Reilly, whose peculiar betting system turns on a horses looks.Witty, philosophical, and vividly written, A Fine Place to Daydream is a paean to the real Ireland, a moving tale of a surprise romance, and a thrilling account of a hugely exciting season at the track.Captivating. . . . Mr. Barich recaptures much of the feel and compass of his first narrative of the equine life, once again weaving a broad tartan from scores of interviews with inhabitants of every corner of the horseracing industry.The Wall Street JournalSkyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, is proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sportsbooks about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team.In addition to books on popular team sports, we also publish books for a wide variety of athletes and sports enthusiasts, including books on running, cycling, horseback riding, swimming, tennis, martial arts, golf, camping, hiking, aviation, boating, and so much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Autor

Bill Barich is the author of numerous books, among them Big Dreams: Into the Heart of California, and The Sporting Life. He has written extensively for The New Yorker, as well as Playboy and Sports Illustrated. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow in fiction.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.10.2015
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Reiten / Pferde
• Schlagworte: acute eye • aleatory nature • arkle • betting • bigger size • bookies • bookmakers • books • Business Information • California • Cheltenham • Concession • Cultural Decay • daily happenings • daily racing • daydream • desperate search • Dublin • Emery • Equine • evolving relationship • fences • Ferry • Festival • fifty percent • functional purpose • Gambling • gold cup • golden gate • grief-filled • grooms • Handbook • handicapping • Harness • headley • Hills • horserace • horseracing • Horse Racing • human construct • Imelda • insular world • Jockeys • Jumpers • lending validity • London • master weaver • narrative thrust • parallel journeys • philosophical purpose • Pichi • popularly believed late 70's • preferred medium • Racehorses • racetrack • radiates • recaptures • Refinement • Rider • rightful claim • Samuel Johnson • seasoned • shelbourne • snowcapped • Sports psychology • steeplechase • substratum • support human • Synapse • system proved • Tartan • thoroughbred horses • track life • Trainers • transcendent nature • Triple Crown • ultimate acceptance • ultimate value • varying times • Verde • washington america • writes entertainingly
• ISBN-10: 1-63450-945-5 / 1634509455
• ISBN-13: 978-1-63450-945-9 / 9781634509459