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Dark Horses and Black Beauties Melissa Holbrook Pierson

Dark Horses and Black Beauties By Melissa Holbrook Pierson

Dark Horses and Black Beauties by Melissa Holbrook Pierson


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A diverse meditation on the ways, and whys of some women's deep attraction to one animal above all others: the horse. It brings together memoir, sociology, history, anecdote and prose poetry.

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Dark Horses and Black Beauties Summary

Dark Horses and Black Beauties: Animals, Women, a Passion by Melissa Holbrook Pierson

A diverse meditation on the ways, and whys, of women's deep attraction to one animal above all others: the horse. In a phenomenon too prevalent to be mere chance, little girls all over the Western world wake one day to find themselves completely taken over by the love of all things equine. They collect model Breyer horses; read books on horse anatomy, evolution, and history; and barely breathe between riding lessons. For some of them, the obsession fades after a few years but returns with a vengeance in middle age. Then there is no stopping them. In fact, the majority of horse owners in countries like the United States and Britain are female, and the explanation turns out to be as full of surprises as the state of affairs it describes. Melissa Holbrook Pierson delves beneath the shallow hypotheses explaining women's connections to horses to look at how this communication with another animal opens us to a new apprehension of the larger natural world. Melding memoir, sociology, history, anecdote, and a bit of prose poetry, Dark Horses and Black Beauties is a unique approach to its subject that also seeks to transcend it, to venture into the dark territory of humankind's relationship with animals--and thus with itself.

About Melissa Holbrook Pierson

Melissa Holbrook Pierson is the author of The Perfect Vehicle, The Place You Love Is Gone, Dark Horses and Black Beauties, and The Man Who Would Stop at Nothing and The Secret History of Kindness. She lives in Shokan, New York.

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CIN0393049477G
9780393049473
0393049477
Dark Horses and Black Beauties: Animals, Women, a Passion by Melissa Holbrook Pierson
Used - Good
Hardback
WW Norton & Co
20000814
256
N/A
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