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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 are all struggling 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 Mound Downs, downriver from Wheeling, West Virginia.
Horseman Tommy Hansel has a scheme to rescue his failing stable: He'll ship four unknown but ready horses to Indian Mound Downs, run them in cheap claiming races at long odds, and then gut out fast before anyone notices. The problem is, at this rundown riverfront half-maile racetrack in the Northern Panhandle, everybody notices -- veteran groom Medicine Ed, Kidstuff the blacksmith, old lady "gyp" Deucey Gifford, stall superintendent Suitcase Smithers, eventually even the ruled-off "racetrack financier" Two-Tie and the ominous leading trainer, Joe Dale Bigg. But no one bothers to factor in Tommy Hansel's go-fer girlfriend, Maggie Koderer. Like the beautiful, used-up, tragic horses she comes to love, Maggie has just enough heart to wire everyone's flagging hopes back to the source of all luck. ŹŹ
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- Title Lord of Misrule
- Author Jaimy Gordon
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st Edition
- Pages 294
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher McPherson, Kingston, NY
- Date 2010
- ISBN 9780929701837 / 0929701836
- Weight 1.12 lbs (0.51 kg)
- Dimensions 8.78 x 5.85 x 1.01 in (22.30 x 14.86 x 2.57 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: West Virginia
- Library of Congress subjects West Virginia, Race horses
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010035030
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
Citations
- Booklist, 11/15/2010, Page 22
- Booklist Editors Choice/Adult, 01/01/2011, Page 8
- Entertainment Weekly, 09/04/2015, Page 45
- Foreword, 11/18/2010, Page 0
- Kirkus Reviews, 10/01/2010, Page 0
- New Yorker (The), 01/03/2011, Page 69
- Publishers Weekly, 10/11/2010, Page 0
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