Lord of Misrule by Gordon, Jaimy and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at bltadwin.ru · When Jaimy Gordon won the National Book Award for fiction last month, she prompted a profligate outburst of metaphors about dark horses. After Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins. Jaimy Gordon has 12 books on Goodreads with ratings. Jaimy Gordon’s most popular book is Lord of Misrule.
Lord of Misrule is a novel by Jaimy bltadwin.ru book is divided into four sections, each concerned with one of four horse races at a "down on the luck" racetrack. The novel drew a positive response, with many reviewers focusing on Gordon's skillful and complex prose style. Amazon Best Books of the Month, December It is nearly impossible not to be drawn into horseracing cliches when describing Jaimy Gordon's novel Lord of Misrule, especially since it came out of the pack as a dark horse (there you go) to win the National Book Award for fiction the same week it was bltadwin.ru's a novel of the track, and Gordon embraces racing's lingo and lore and even. Gordon's short story, "A Night's Work," which shares a number of characters with Lord of Misrule, appeared in Best American Short Stories She is also the author of a novella, Circumspections from an Equestrian Statue, and the fantasy classic novel Shamp of the City-Solo.
Lord of Misrule by Gordon, Jaimy and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at bltadwin.ru Overview. A brilliant novel that captures the dusty, dark, and beautiful world of small-time horse racing, where trainers, jockeys, grooms and grifters vie for what little luck is offered at a run-down West Virginia track. Tommy Hansel has a plan: run four horses, all better than they look on paper, at long odds at Indian Mound Downs, then grab the purse — or cash a bet — and run before anyone’s the wiser. Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon opens with "Inside the back gate of Indian Mound Downs, a hot-walking machine creaked round and round. In the judgment of Medicine Ed, walking a horse himself on the shedrow of Barn Z, the going-nowhere contraption must be the lost soul of this cheap racetrack where he been ended up at.".
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