A Fine Place to Daydream by Bill Barich
Experience the sheer thrill and joy of National Hunt racing as an American novelist follows a select group of leading horses and their Irish trainers on their annual pilgrimage to the Cheltenham Festival, in this evocative book on the jumps and the Irish love of horse racing.About Bill Barich’s writing:
`Barich has one of the most seemingly off-hand but illuminating essay styles of anyone writing today’ Los Angeles Times
`Brilliant and unflinchingly frank, Barich’s prose is a delight’ New York Times
`Barich writes with intelligence, with sympathy and unusual grace’ Richard Ford, the Pulitzer Prize winning author
`Few writers are as lucid as Barich, and not one provides as much pleasure and insight page-for-page’ Robert Stone, the award-winning US novellist
Bill Barich has lived in Northern California for most of his life. His first book, Laughing in the Hills, a classic account of racetrack life, was hailed by Sports Illustrated as one of the 100 best sports books of all-time and was serialized in The New Yorker, where Barich was a staff writer for many years, contributing both fiction and non-fiction. His honours include a Guggenheim Fellowship and inclusion in Best American Short Stories. He is a Literary Laureate of the San Francisco Public Library and currently resides in Dublin.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780007191802 |
| ISBN 10 | 0007191804 |
| Title | A Fine Place to Daydream |
| Author | Bill Barich |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 2009-08-01 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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