Something for the Pain: A Memoir of the Turf [Audiobook] download free by Gerald Murnane
- Listen audiobook: Something for the Pain: A Memoir of the Turf
- Author: Gerald Murnane
- Release date: 2016/5/24
- Publisher: TEXT PUBLISHING CO
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Biography
- ISBN: 9781925240375
- Rating: 9.75 of 10
- Votes: 564
- Review by: Lukas Murdock
- Review rating: 9.43 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/15
- Duration: 3H11M17S in 256 kbps (51.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-02
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, AC3, FLAC, MP3, WAV, MPEG4 (compression ZIP, CAB, ARC, RAR, CBC, ALZ)
- Total pages original book: 258
- Includes a PDF summary of 29 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 20M47S (5.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: I never met anyone whose interest in racing matched my own. Both on and off the course, so to speak, I've enjoyed the company of many a racing acquaintance...I've read books, or parts of books, by persons who might have come close to being true racing friends of mine if ever we had met. For most of my long life, however, my enjoyment of racing has been a solitary thing- something I could never wholly explain to anyone else. As a boy, Gerald Murnane became obsessed with horse racing. He had never ridden a horse, nor seen a race. Yet he was fascinated by photos of horse races in the Sporting Globe, and by the incantation of horses' names in radio broadcasts of races. Murnane discovered in these races more than he could find in religion or philosophy- they were the gateway to a world of imagination. Gerald Murnane is like no other writer, and Something for the Pain is like no other Murnane book. In this unique and spellbinding memoir, he tells the story of his life through the lens of horse racing. It is candid, droll and moving - a treat for lovers of literature and of the turf. 'A treat - a rare glimpse into the mythology of a grand sport.' Gerard Whateley
- Other categories, genre or collection: Biography: Literary, Memoirs, Horse Racing, Literary Studies: General
- Download servers: KATCR, FileServe, 4Shared, Uploaded, Mediafire, Filedropper. Compressed in ZIP, CAB, ARC, RAR, CBC, ALZ
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 16.36 USD
- Dimensions: 154x234x22.86mm
- Weight: 364g
- Printed by: The Text Publishing Company
- Published in: Melbourne, Australia
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