Sweet William : A Memoir of Old Horse (hardcover)

John Hawkes, born John Clendennin Talbot Burne Hawkes, Jr. (August 17, 1925 – May 15, 1998), was a postmodern American novelist, known for the intensity of his work, which suspended some traditional constraints of narrative fiction.

A fictional autobiography of a horse traces the shifting circumstances of his life from a tragic youth, through his years on the racetrack of life, to his relationship with a kindly old man.