Horse stories
By: edited by Diana Secker Tesdell
Series: Everyman's pocket classics
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780307961457
Subjects: Horses; American Short stories; English Short stories; Fiction
Description: A beautifully jacketed Everyman's Library Pocket Classics hardcover anthology of two centuries of short fiction about our most majestic companion animal. Annie Proulx and Bret Harte transport us to the ranches of the Old West and Rudyard Kipling to the polo fields of India. Arthur Conan Doyle makes a famous Thoroughbred disappear, and Raymond Carver gives us a vision of runaway horses in the mist. Jane Smiley, Margaret Atwood, Isaac Babel, and Ted Hughes explore the human passions horses can unleash. From the rollicking racetrack humor of Damon Runyon to the poignant lyricism of John Steinbeck's "The Red Pony" to the wild recklessness of adolescence in William Saroyan's "The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse" and Lydia Peelle's "Sweethearts of the Rodeo," these stories testify to our varied and timeless fascination with the noble animal.
Notes: "This is a Borzoi book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Beryl Markham / The splendid outcast; title: Jane Smiley; title: Just a quarter crack; title: Bret Harte / Chu Chu; title: Mary E. Wilkins Reeman /    The doctor's horse; title: Rudyard Kipling / The Maltese cat; title: Saki / The Brogue; title: Mark Twain / A genuine Mexican Plug; title: Annie Proulx / The Blood Bay; title: Isaac Babel / The story of a horse; title: Damon Runyon / Old Em's Kentucky home; title: Arthur Conan Doyle / Silver Blaze; title: D. H. Lawrence / The Rocking-Horse winner; title: John O'Hara / We'll have fun; title: John Steinbeck / The gift; title: William Saroyan / The summer of the beautiful white horse; title: Lydia Peelle / Sweethearts of the rodeo; title: Pam Houston / What Shock heard; title: Margaret Atwood / White horse; title: Ted Hughes / The rain horse; title: Raymond Carver / Call if you need me.