Full name: Some Horses: Essays

Author: Thomas McGuane Year: 1999 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Essays, Animals, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780375724527 9781558218918 0375724524 1558218912

In Some Horses, Tom McGuane animates the wide prairie, the ranches where cattle roam and cutting horses are trained, and the packed coliseums in which these horses compete for prestige and prize money. Best of all, McGuane brings to life the horses he has known, celebrating the unique glories that make each of them memorable. McGuane's writing is infused with a love of the cowboy life and the animals and people who inhabit that world where the intimate dance between horse and rider is as magical as flight--well beyond what the human body could ever discover on its own. Similar books: In Praise of Messy Lives by Katie Roiphe The End of the End of the Earth by Jonathan Franzen Broken Vessels by Andre Dubus Nobody's Looking at You by Janet Malcolm Farther Away by Jonathan Franzen The Patch by John McPhee Feel Free by Zadie Smith Vintage Didion by Joan Didion Both Flesh and Not by David Foster Wallace Books v. Cigarettes by George Orwell When I Was a Child I Read Books by Marilynne Robinson At the Same Time by Susan Sontag On Looking by Lia Purpura Table of Contents by John McPhee Pulphead by John Jeremiah Sullivan The Longest Silence by Thomas McGuane Deep Creek by Pam Houston 21st-Century Yokel by Tom Cox The Flight of the Iguana by David Quammen Waiting for My Cats to Die by Stacy Horn