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Korda, Michael. Horse People: Scenes from the Riding Life.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Nov. 2003. 384p. illus. HarperCollins, $25.95 (0-06-621252-9). 798.2.
One mark of a good writer is to engage readers on a topic in which they have no inherent interest This is what Korda, editor-in-chief at Simon & Schuster and author of several popular memoirs, does here with horses and horse riding. For, although the publicity copy that accompanies the book earnestly gives numbers on how many people ride, the fact remains that the horse world, primarily of New York, is not on most readers' radar screens. So Korda draws us in slowly with stories about the persnickety folks who populate that world and what it feels like to be astride so powerful an animal and what it feels like to fall off. That one of the ...
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