Hanging in the Foaling Barn

by Richards, Susan Starr

• ISBN13: 9781932511338
• ISBN10: 1932511334
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-01
• Publisher: Sarabande Books

Summary

"When Susan Richards writes about horses and the interactions of the people involved with them, she brilliantly captures the characters, equine and human."-Maxine Kumin Strong, startling, funny-these stories are rich in their feeling for the human, natural, and sometimes supernatural world of Kentucky. Susan Starr Richards has spent most of her life raising racehorses in central Kentucky, and writing. She has been a NEA Fellow in Fiction. Her stories have appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Sewanee Review, Shenandoah, The Southern Review, and in Thoroughbred Times, as winner of their first National Fiction Prize.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	IX
The Hanging in the Foaling Barn	3	(14)
The Ape in the Face	17	(16)
Clarence Cummins and the Semi-Permanent Loan	33	(20)
Man Walking	53	(14)
The Screened Porch	67	(16)
The Murderer, the Pony, and Miss Brown to YOU	83	(16)
Magic Lantern	99	(18)
Grass Fires	117	(14)
Gawain and the Horsewoman	131	(25)
THE AUTHOR	156