An edition of Lord of Misrule
(2010)
Lord of misrule
by Jaimy Gordon
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Lord of Misrule follows five characters - scarred and lonely dreamers - through a year and four races at Indian Mound Downs, downriver from Wheeling, West Virginia.
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"National book award winner"
cover. -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
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2010 National Book Award for Fiction.
2011 Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
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