Bug boy
By: Eric Luper.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780374310004
Subjects: Horse racing -- Fiction; Jockeys -- Fiction; Gambling -- Fiction; Sex role -- Fiction; Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction; Fathers and sons -- Fiction; Saratoga (N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In 1934 Saratoga, New York, just as fifteen-year-old Jack Walsh finally realizes his dream of becoming a jockey, complications arise in the form of a female bookie, an unexpected visit from his father, and a man who wants him to "fix" a race.