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Sweet William

A Memoir of Old Horse

by John Hawkes


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Narrated by the eponymous hero, a broken-down nag who used to be a thoroughbred, this tells the story of a horse's hard life: tragedy, death, mistreatment, violence--all leavened with humor, and with the kindness Sweet William finds at the end.


Available editions of Sweet William

9780140236163 9780140236163, Paperback, Penguin Group USA, 1994

$1.60 (Very Good )

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9780671740573 9780671740573, Hardcover, Simon & Schuster, 1993

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Publisher Notes

From the National Book Award winner comes the moving novel of Sweet William, an old thoroughbred horse, who recounts the trials and tribulations of his life. Sweet William shares the glory of his days as a race horse--and as a broken-down mount transformed by the kindness of a strange old man.

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