Off Track: or How I Dropped Out of College and Came to be a Horse Trainer in the 1970s While All My Friends Were Still Doing Drug

Memoir of a Vietnam Vet who returns home and tries to find his bearing, but butts heads with his father and friends and falls into a career of horse training.

Author: Jim McGarrah
Publisher: Blue Heron Book Works
Published: 09/05/2015
Pages: 162
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.37d
ISBN13: 9780692420195
ISBN10: 0692420193
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Social Scientists & Psychologists

About the Author
Marine, social worker, carpet layer, janitor, bartender, race horse trainer, and college professor, McGarrah lives in Louisville, Kentucky, close enough to Churchill Downs to hear the crowd roar each year at the Kentucky Derby. Jim McGarrah's poems, essays, and stories appear frequently in literary journals such as Bayou Magazine, Breakwater, Cincinnati Review, Chamber Four, Connecticut Review, and North American Review. He is the author of three award-winning books of poetry: Running the Voodoo Down (Elixir Press, 2003); When the Stars Go Dark (Main Street Rag, 2009); and Breakfast at Denny's (Ink Brush Press, 2013). His memoir of war, A Temporary Sort of Peace (Indiana Historical Society Press, 2007) won the national Eric Hoffer Legacy Non-Fiction Award, and the sequel, The End of an Era, was published in 2011. He is editor, along with Tom Watson, of the anthology Home Again: Essays and Memoirs from Indiana and the former managing editor of Southern Indiana Review.

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