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Lord of misrule
Author
Title
Lord of misrule / a novel by Jaimy Gordon.
ISBN
9780929701837
0929701836
Publication
Kingston, New York : McPherson & Company, [2010]
Copyright Notice Date
©2010
Physical Description
294 pages ; 23 cm
Local Notes
BEIN 2018 4426: Imperfect: pages 70-90 stained. Dust jacket. Autograph: "Samuel R. Delany" with information about receipt of the item. Manuscript notes of Samuel R. Delany throughout. Accompanying material: 1 business card of Bruce R. McPherson (1 leaf ; 9 cm). From the library of Samuel R. Delany.
Notes
National Book Award, Fiction, 2010
Michigan Notable Book, 2011
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.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 15, 2010
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Novels.
Sports fiction.
Fiction.
Novels.
Sports fiction.
Annotations (Provenance) - 21st century.
Also listed under
Samuel R. Delany Library (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library). Literary Contacts Library.
United States New York (State) Kingston.
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