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Fiction. When tough, self-made construction mogul and thoroughbred owner Pat McGoohey hires the smooth, talented, mahogany-skinned Len Thomas as his trainer, he breaks with longstanding protocol, taking Len across the color line into a rapidly accelerating adventure of crime, romance, racing and race. "America is a country in which the complexity of the truth runs so contradictory to clichés that it can always seem revolutionary just by being itself. What Barney Rostaing has achieved here is something so free of clichés about minorities, women, and privileged men that we are continually startled by his authority and insight. In the process, he almost reinvents the heist tale as a commentary on contemporary life as it is actually lived"--Stanley Crouch.
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As a sports writer, Bjarne (Barney) Rostaing exposed the 1984 US Olympic blood doping scandal in Sports Illustrated. He worked as an editor at the SoHo Weekly News, won an AFI First Place Award for a sports video, and worked with Uma Thurman in Kiss Daddy Goodnight. Previous books include Phantom of the Paradise (Dell), and The Bill Walton Book of Bicycling (Bantam). He lives and works in New York City.
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Cool Grove Press April 2011, 2011
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