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1 review
Bill Barich

Vintage, 1998

believable, interesting characters and plot
I thoroughly enjoyed this book.It included interesting facts on wine-making with believable,interesting characters and plot. I hope to read more from this author.

A Fine Place to Daydream: Racehorses, Romance, and the Irish

5 reviews
Bill Barich

Vintage, 2007

A master stylist writes of horses and romance and Ireland.
I've long touted Bill Barich's LAUGHING IN THE HILLS, named by Amazon as one of the best sports books of the last century, and now after many years here finally is a satisfactory sequel. Barich follows his soulmate back to Ireland, where he also falls in love with the pastoral steeplechase and horses over hurdles on the green: "I took to it so readily that the flat races began to bore me. ...

Horse Racing: The Golden Age of the Track

4 reviews

Chronicle Books, 2001

Horse Racing: The Golden Age of the Track
This is a really good history of horse racing and has so many wonderful pictures. It was a gift and the person receiving it is a huge horse racing fan and he loved it.

Traveling Light: A Year of Wandering, from California to England and Tuscany and BAck Again

4 reviews
Bill Barich

The Lyons Press, 2000

A "reader friendly" combination travelogue and travel guide
Bill Barich's Traveling Light is a "reader friendly" combination travelogue and travel guide providing ten chronological chapters from a year of wandering from the Pacific Northwest to Tuscany and back to California. Barich travels around the world and adds wit and wry observation to a fine armchair read.

Laughing in the Hills

8 reviews
Bill Barich

DRF Press, 2007

If it's by Bill Barich, it's worth its weight in gold
After I read Barich's New Yorker essay "At the Fountain," I (A) gave a copy to every one of my friends, and (B) pilgramiged to read and know the other published work of this amazing author. 'Laughing in the Hills' could have been about how beans are canned, and it would still be a classic. This book is in a class with the best of Constantine, Auster, and Hardy - and they should consider ...

Sporting Life, The: Horses, Boxers, Rivers, and a Russian Ballclub

2 reviews
Bill Barich

The Lyons Press, 1999

Entertaining but slight
Barich writes beautiful clean prose, and there's always a sly sense of humour in his stories, but this volume is a bit of a disappointment. Only the piece on Irish Pat Lawlor really seems to have been worked up; the others have the appearance of having been dashed off quickly and a bit carelessly -- the endings, in particular, look hurried -- although the prose is always fine. Two pieces in ...

Crazy for Rivers

3 reviews
Bill Barich

Lyons Pr, 1999

CRAZY FOR RIVERS will make you crazy for Barich
CRAZY FOR RIVERS Bill Barich Lyons Press $16.95 80 pp. "That autumn, I went a little crazy for rivers," says Bill Barich at the beginning of this deceptively simple book. Fortunately, Barich went crazy for words many autumns ago; he can create deep pools of prose with catch phrases at the bottom which sparkle with insight when brought to the surface of our consciousness. In this paean to ...