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Laughing in the Hills : A Season at the Racetrack by Barich, Bill is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Laughing in the Hills : A Season at the Racetrack about?

Bill Barich burst onto the literary scene more than twenty-five years ago with this remarkable account of racetrack life. Holed up in a cheap motel in Albany, California, only a few miles from Golden Gate Fields, he looked to the track to help him make sense of his life during a dark peiod of loss and challenge. With rare sensitivity, he captured the gritty world of the backstretch, and also its poetry, as few other writers have done. Laughing in the Hills, which was first serialized in the New Yorker, has become a classic of sporting literature and a must for anyone who loves horses and the world they create. “It is a lovely, valuable book, introspective without being self-servingly so, affectionate but never saccharine in its evocation of racetrack life, witty and perceptive throughout." —Jonathan Yardley, Sports Illustrated Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, is proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sports—books 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 w

Who reads Laughing in the Hills : A Season at the Racetrack?

Author

Barich, Bill

Publisher

Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781932910582

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sports, Agriculture, History