Lord of misrule : a novel / by Jaimy Gordon.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Kingston, N.Y. : McPherson & Co., c2010.Description: 294 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780929701837 (alk. paper)
  • 0929701836 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813/.54 22
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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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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