Laughing in the Hills [Author Inscribed]

New York: Viking Press, 1980. First Edition (presumed; no prior editions or printings cited). Octavo with green and blue half-cloth boards and blue, green and white pictorial jacket; 228 pages; 22 cm Jacket is very good (-) with some edgewear and interior foxing; a very good (-) copy with foxing to edges, else clean and tight; see photos. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780670419975, 0670419974

Barich's first book. Inscribed to two friends. Considered something of a classic on horse racing and horse racing culture. "Bill Barich burst onto the literary scene more than twenty-five years ago with this remarkable account of racetrack life. Holed up in a cheap motel in Albany, California, only a few miles from Golden Gate Fields, he looked to the track to help him make sense of his life during a dark period of loss and challenge. With rare sensitivity, he captured the gritty world of the backstretch, and also its poetry, as few other writers have done. Laughing in the Hills, which was first serialized in the New Yorker, has become a classic of sporting literature and a must for anyone who loves horses and the world they create."— Skyhorse Publishing// Autobiographies, Barich, Bill, Courses de chevaux Paris, Horse racing, Horse racing Betting, autobiographies (literary works