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...Robert Kennedy: A Memoir, Newfield...
CRAZY OVER HORSES, by Sam Toperoff. "Horses, horses, horses, crazy over horses," the old song goes. Less repetitive but equally obsessed, the author has transformed a lifelong weakness for the ponies into an oddly winning novel-memoir...
...Peter Principle, Peter and Hull (4) 2. Ernest Hemingway, Baker (2) 3. The Kingdom and the Power, Talese (6) 4. Jennie, Martin (1) 5. Between Parent and Teenager, Ginott (3) 6. The 900 Days, Salisbury (5) 7. An Unfinished Woman, Hellman 8. Robert Kennedy: A Memoir, Newfield 9. The Money Game, 'Adam Smith' (10) 10. The Arms of Krupp, Manchester...
...CRAYV tiVER HORSES, by Sam Toperoff. "Horses, horses, horses, crazy over horses," the old song goes. Less repetitive but equally obsessed, the author has transformed a lifelong weakness for the ponies into an oddly winning novel-memoir...
...they raced rats and placed Tote machines in Madison Square Garden, they could fill the joint with suckers every night." He was getting at a basic truth about the fascination of gambling. But what clearly eluded him-and what Sam Toperoff conveys with love in this oddly winning novelistic memoir-is the peculiar delight, the exquisite angst that horses (and wagering on them) give a really dedicated race-goer...