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Joe McGinniss's passion for horse racing and unsurpassed talent for observation combine in this riveting behind-the-scenes account of the 2003 racing season, told as only he could tell it. Volponi, winner of the 2002 Breeders' Cup Classic, was trainer P. G. Johnson's "big horse"--that singular animal that every trainer searches for, the horse that will bring its stable prestige, power, and riches. McGinniss follows Volponi and the iron-tough J...

This is a thrilling debut--a novel about youth wasting itself knowingly against the laid-back, glossy, trademark amorality of Las Vegas, told in a voice that sounds like that of a slightly older, hipper Holden Caulfield, coming of age in a place that has no past or future--only the cool, gleaming, terrifying present. Sexy, touching, always shrewdly observed, and with a killer ending, The Delivery Man Is the Less Than Zero of the early 2000s--a...