Lord of misrule : a novel
Gordon, Jaimy , 1944-
Lord of misrule : a novel / by Jaimy Gordon - Kingston, N.Y. : McPherson & Co. , c2010. - 294 p. ; 23 cm.
At the rock-bottom end of the sport of kings sits the ruthless and often violent world of cheap horse racing, where trainers and jockeys, grooms and hotwalkers, loan sharks and touts all struggle to take an edge, or prove their luck, or just survive. Equal parts Nathanael West, Damon Runyon and Eudora Welty, Lord of Misrule follows five characters, scarred and lonely dreamers in the American grain, through a year and four races at Indian Mount Downs, downriver from Wheeling, West Virginia-- from dust jacket.
2010 National Book Award for Fiction.
9780307946737
2010035030
Horse racing----Fiction
West Virginia----Fiction
PS3557.O668 / L67 2010
FIC GOR
Lord of misrule : a novel / by Jaimy Gordon - Kingston, N.Y. : McPherson & Co. , c2010. - 294 p. ; 23 cm.
At the rock-bottom end of the sport of kings sits the ruthless and often violent world of cheap horse racing, where trainers and jockeys, grooms and hotwalkers, loan sharks and touts all struggle to take an edge, or prove their luck, or just survive. Equal parts Nathanael West, Damon Runyon and Eudora Welty, Lord of Misrule follows five characters, scarred and lonely dreamers in the American grain, through a year and four races at Indian Mount Downs, downriver from Wheeling, West Virginia-- from dust jacket.
2010 National Book Award for Fiction.
9780307946737
2010035030
Horse racing----Fiction
West Virginia----Fiction
PS3557.O668 / L67 2010
FIC GOR
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