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Lord of misrule : a novel / by Jaimy Gordon

By:

Gordon, Jaimy, , 1944-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Kingston, N.Y. : McPherson & Co. , c2010.Description: 294 p. ; 23 cmISBN:

9780307946737

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

FIC GOR

LOC classification:

PS3557.O668 L67 2010

Awards:

2010 National Book Award for Fiction.

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC GOR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		027190

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.

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