Driving Force
Putnam, 1992
Favorite passages
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: job like any other
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
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.
Chosen by members of the reading group in the late 1990s. From Driving Force by Dick Francis.
The group read it
We discussed Driving Force on May 4, 1998.
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