Jane Schwartz
Autor von Ruffian: Burning from the Start
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The timeline bounces all over the place, from the night before the match race in which she sustained fatal injuries, back to her birth, wandering around the realities of breeding, rearing, and early schooling, back to the early morning of the race, off into histories of the men who worked with her, dropping in on early track victories, off to outline the backstory of her track opponents, and on and on and on for nearly 300 pages. The result is a nearly incoherent mess, which pulls together only in the last few heartbreaking pages as Ruffian’s on-track breakdown and the valiant but failed battle to save her life play out.
Racing fans who remember the filly’s career still have a bad case of the what-ifs regarding this superstar whose career was cut short so disastrously, but readers seeking to understand just what made her so special will be disappointed.… (mehr)