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Boyd, Brendan Racing Days
0670818739 / 9780670818730; In eighty striking duo tone photographs accompanied by seventy penetrating essays, Brendan Boyd and Henry Horenstein capture the gritty, elegant essence of a fascinating closed universe - the thoroughbred racetrack. Here is the subculture that lurks behind the glitter and the Derby Day TV cameras - a world of illusion and longing, of smart money and sure things, of big payoffs and endless losing streaks. Here, too, are all the raffish peripheral characters who populate this vivid dream world: The hype, the jockey agents, the society owners, and the tip-sheet sellers. All these closet romantics share on obsessive belief: "That the best thing in the world is to win at the racetrack, and the second-best thing is to lose at the racetrack." From the rarified boxes at Saratoga to the muddy shedrow at Great Barrington, from the training track at dawn to the last stoopers nudging discarded tickets with idle toes, this volume demonstrates once and for all why "the track is not a metaphor for life, life is a metaphor for the track." 159 pages, gray cloth with black lettering. The book has an address label of the prior owner on the ffep and title page. The jacket is a bit loose on the book. 10 1/2" x 10" tall
Viking Press
New York, 1987, First Edition
Cloth
Fine
Near Fine; Book
Horenstein, Henry;
003501;
Price:
12.88 USD
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