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Stock Photo | | Item Specifics - Fiction Books | | | Author: | Dick Francis | | Format: | Hardcover | | | Publisher: | Putnam Pub Group | | Category: | Action, Adventure | | | ISBN-10: | 039914434X | | Sub-Category: | -- | | | ISBN-13: | 9780399144349 | | Condition: | Used | | | Publication Year: | 1998 | | | | | | Special Attributes: | -- | | | | | | |
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Field of Thirteen
- Title: Field of Thirteen
- Author: Dick Francis
- ISBN: 039914434X
- Media: Hardcover
- Dust Jacket: Very Good
- Publisher: Putnam Pub Group (T)
- Pub. Date: 1998
- Price: $1.99
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- Condition: Used / Very Good
- SKU: CAB-000509
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| Synopsis | In this collection of short stories set in and around the world of horse racing, Francis doesn't stray far from the familiar territory he knows best.
| | Size | | Length: | 287 pages | | Height: | 9.5 in. | | Width: | 6.5 in. | | Thickness: | 1.5 in. | | Weight: | 25.6 oz. |
| | Publisher's Note | A brilliant collection of suspenseful horseracing stories by Grand Master Dick Francis. "Dick Francis has the knack. Which, clearly, is never going to desert him. It's the seemingly simple, most-writers-would-kill-for knack".--"The Philadelphia Inquirer".
With his remarkable blend of unrelenting suspense, finely tuned narrative, and lean, stylish prose, Dick Francis's thrillers have led readers to the winner's circle year after year. From his very first novel, DEAD CERT, to his most recent, 10 LB. PENALTY, the three-time Edgar Award winner has treated his fans to a world of equine thrills and human frailty in a string of bestsellers of unparalleled excellence. But with FIELD OF THIRTEEN, Dick Francis takes on his biggest challenge yet. In this superbly crafted collection of short stories--many of them new and never before published--the settings range from a spring race meeting at Cheltenham, where a middle-aged owner falls hopelessly in love with her jockey, to a running of the Grand National interrupted by a bomb scare, to the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, where demon drink and wilting willpower take their toll. Dick Francis's fans have a wonderful treat in store--thirteen tightly-knotted plots to marvel at, thirteen sets of classic Francis characters to admire, and thirteen stings of the tail to gasp over. FIELD OF THIRTEEN proves Dick Francis is as much the master of the short story as he is of the novel.
| | Industry reviews | A collection of 13 stories from jockey- turned-mystery writer Francis.
Donovan
Though nearly two score of his novels have come to print, Francis has published only eight short stories in his 41 years as a bestselling author. That octet, composed mostly in the 1970s and initially appearing in various journals (Sports Illustrated, the Times of London, etc.), is reprinted here, along with five new tales, each introduced in brief by Francis. There's not a slacker among them, though few champions either. The earliest yarn, "Carrot for a Chestnut," dating from 1970 (eight years after Francis's first novel), is typical, presenting a morally ordered universe in which malefactors get their due, albeit commonly through indirect means. Here, a jockey who bends a race by feeding a horse a drugged carrot receives his comeuppance by losing his concentration as a result of his crime and getting involved in a nasty accident; as in most of the stories, there's a light twist to the ending. Horse racing figures in every entry, of course. Sometimes it's the focus of a crime as in "Blind Chance," in which a blind boy picks up on how bettors are getting inside info on races with photo finishes. Sometimes, it's only background, as in "Collision Course," about how a fired newspaper editor hoists poetic justice upon a horrid restaurateur/horse trainer. Most of the stories are superficially clever, but below the quick plotting there's emotional depth; in "Spring Fever," for instance, Francis plumbs the innocent desperation of unrequited December-May love. And throughout there is Francis's voice, strong, smart, ironic, developed even at the beginning but maturing in timbre as he hones his skill. Even more than the horse racing, this voice is the tie that binds these 13 tales into a charmed entertainment. (Sept.)
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