Driving Force

Putnam, 1992

Driving Force has some great quotes! I had a hard time choosing which to share, but one of my favorites is as Freddie is watching the races at Sandown: "Of all courses it evoked in me the strongest nostalgia for the close world I'd lost, the intimate body-to-body blending with a non-human powerhouse, the mind-into-mind flowing of courage and intent. One could speak to strangers of race-riding as being a "job like any other" but the slightest introspection gave that the lie. Racing on horses over jumps at thirty or more miles an hour was, to me at least, a spiritual exaltation never achieved or even envisioned in any other way. To each his religion, I supposed. Big horses over big fences had been mine."

Other book titles in the text: Nerve, Straight and (The) Danger.

Check out an online rhyming dictionary. Thanks to Ecvinal for finding it!

We discussed Driving Force on May 4, 1998. Members can find the meeting logs in our reading group folder on AOL or at our Internet Members area.