WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION "Lord of Misrule" is a darkly realistic novel about a young woman living through a year of horse racing at a half-mile track in West Virginia, while everyone's best laid schemes keep going brutally wrong. With her first novel since her acclaimed "Bogeywoman" (1999), Jaimy Gordon bears comparison to other great writers of the American demimonde, such as Nathanael West, Damon Runyon, and Eudora Welty.-- "book cover"
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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION "Lord of Misrule" is a darkly realistic novel about a young woman living through a year of horse racing at a half-mile track in West Virginia, while everyone's best laid schemes keep going brutally wrong. With her first novel since her acclaimed "Bogeywoman" (1999), Jaimy Gordon bears comparison to other great writers of the American demimonde, such as Nathanael West, Damon Runyon, and Eudora Welty.-- "book cover"
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The small town venue called the horse track comes to life in an adventurous story. The glamor and Ritz of televised horse racing are gone in this incredible novel and replaced by real track characters , A wonderful read and I see know why it was given such a high literary award.
Profe
Nov 3, 2011
Plodding through
My book club chose this book but I have been plodding through, hoping to find out why it won the award that sparked its being chosen by the group!
Sorry!
Lynn S
Jun 30, 2011
Yawn!
Sorry, I love horses but this book is not for horse lovers - I made it through the first half dozen chapters, liked the poor horses, didn't like the people.
