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 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.
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