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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 599
EAN: 9780393322668
ISBN: 0393322661
Label: W.W. Norton & Co.
Manufacturer: W.W. Norton & Co.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: 2001-10
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Studio: W.W. Norton & Co.




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Product Description:
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. Melissa Holbrook Pierson was one of those horse-crazy girls who later returned to riding with a new appreciation for the nature of horses. Melding memoir, sociology, history, anecdote, and a bit of prose poetry, Dark Horses and Black Beauties delves beneath the shallow hypotheses explaining women's connection to horses to look at how this communication with another animal opens us up to a new apprehension of the larger "natural" world.



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Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - A Voice for Horses
I have read this book several times, when it was first published and again recently. This book is more than a feel good read about the relationship between women and horses. And it's also more than just an animal rights platform. From this book, I've re-established many of my earlier convictions about horses and developed new ones. As a former competitive rider who has been involved in Western performance events and recently taken up dressage, I've taken a hard look at myself and just exactly ... Read More



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Take the good with the bad
While perusing the horse section at my local Borders, it was refreshing to come across a "different" kind of horse book. Here was not a book that would teach me how to ride or care for my horse, but rather enlighten me to the aspects of just why I am the horsey girl I am (although a grown woman these days).

I was sucked in with the first few pages, so I took this book home. Through most of the first third to half of the book, I couldn't believe that someone out there had hit the nail ... Read More



Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - Painful
A horse owner and lover, I was given this book as a gift. Had it not been a gift I would have happily thrown it in the trash, but I kept reading in order to give the soon-to-be-asked-for book review. This book is dark, very dark. There are a few nice "moments." I kept waiting for the "payoff" for all the darkness and it never came. Overall I found it disturbing and wanted only to expunge it from my memory. There are other books that will be much more enlightening and enjoyable. Buy those.



Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - I was irritated by this book, misled by its cover
I thought I was getting a nostalgic look at a brief period in my childhood, as a privileged fourth grader taking riding lessons in tony, horsey Wilton CT. My horsey passion was cut short by an abrupt move to NYC, but I never forgot the elite culture I left behind. This small book started off OK with an accurate look at girl's formulaic horse stories, for which I award it a single star; I did get a few laughs. But it soon falls apart. I had not bargained for an animal rights book. I have a lot of ... Read More



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - What I said to friends on the Chronicle of the Horse forums
It is a little book, one that describes the love from childhood of all things horse related and how a person grows but doesn't lose that feeling of awe and delight in the presence of horses. The author quotes brief remembrances of others who have had these incredible animals touch their lives.

While it focuses on little girls, women and gender, it is of definate interest to everyone here who loves horses. The author tries to explain why so few males continue to ride and lauds those who do.
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