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The Sport of Kings: A Novel - Paperback By Morgan, C E - ACCEPTABLE
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- ISBN
- 9781250131843
- Book Title
- Sport of Kings : a Novel
- Item Length
- 8.2 in
- Publisher
- Picador
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Format
- Trade Paperback, Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- General, Literary, Sports
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Item Weight
- 14.6 Oz, 15.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 560 Pages
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A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the Kirkus Prize for Fiction * A Recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction * A Finalist for the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction * A Finalist for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction * A Finalist for the Rathbones Folio Prize * Longlisted for an Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence * One of New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Book Named a Best Book of the Year by Entertainment Weekly * GQ * The New York Times (Selected by Dwight Garner) * NPR * The Wall Street Journal * San Francisco Chronicle * Refinery29 * Booklist * Kirkus Reviews * Commonweal Magazine "In its poetic splendor and moral seriousness, The Sport of Kings bears the traces of Faulkner, Morrison, and McCarthy. . . . It is a contemporary masterpiece." -- San Francisco Chronicle Hailed by The New Yorker for its "remarkable achievements," The Sport of Kings is an American tale centered on a horse and two families: one white, a Southern dynasty whose forefathers were among the founders of Kentucky; the other African-American, the descendants of their slaves. It is a dauntless narrative that stretches from the fields of the Virginia piedmont to the abundant pastures of the Bluegrass, and across the dark waters of the Ohio River; from the final shots of the Revolutionary War to the resounding clang of the starting bell at Churchill Downs. As C. E. Morgan unspools a fabric of shared histories, past and present converge in a Thoroughbred named Hellsmouth, heir to Secretariat and a contender for the Triple Crown. Newly confronted with one another in the quest for victory, the two families must face the consequences of their ambitions, as each is driven---and haunted---by the same, enduring question: How far away from your father can you run? A sweeping narrative of wealth and poverty, racism and rage, The Sport of Kings is an unflinching portrait of lives cast in the shadow of slavery and a moral epic for our time.
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Publisher
Picador
ISBN-10
1250131847
ISBN-13
9781250131843
eBay Product ID (ePID)
229537034
Product Key Features
Book Title
Sport of Kings : a Novel
Format
Trade Paperback, Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, Literary, Sports
Publication Year
2017
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
560 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Item Weight
14.6 Oz, 15.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Publication Date
2017-05-02
Reviews
"C.E. Morgan''s The Sport of Kings takes the kind of dauntless, breathtaking chances readers once routinely expected from the boldest of American novels. . . . It is a profoundly orchestrated work that is both timeless and up-to-the-minute in its concerns, the most notable of which is what another Kentucky-bred novelist, Robert Penn Warren, once labeled ''the awful responsibility of time.''"--Judges'' panel for the Kirkus Prize for Fiction "One of this year''s best novels."-- The Boston Globe "Magnificent."-- GQ "C.E. Morgan has more nerve, linguistic vitality, and commitment to cosmic thoroughness in one joint of her little finger than the next hundred contemporary novelists have in their entire bodies and vocabularies."-- The New York Times Book Review "C.E. Morgan tackles destiny, race, love, and family with such thought-provoking, stunning prose that even at its most disturbing, it''s beautiful to read. This book is destined to be an American classic. I haven''t read anything this powerful, moving, and jaw-dropping in many years."-- The San Diego Union-Tribune "Ravishing and ambitious . . . [A] serious and important novel."-- The New York Times "[A]sprawling, magisterial Southern Gothic for the twenty-first century."-- O, The Oprah Magazine "Majestic and sorrowful . . . With this extraordinary work, C.E. Morgan moves into the front rank of contemporary writers."-- Newsday "Everyone thinks [The Sport of Kings] is about horse racing, when it''s really about everything: love, race, legacy, family, justice, poverty, and American inequality. On top of that, it''s one of the most gorgeous books I''ve read in many years. When I finished the book, I immediately called a friend and said ''this book is precisely why I do the work I do.''"--Lisa Lucas, executive director of the National Book Foundation, for The Millions (A Year in Reading) "A world-encompassing colossus of a second novel . . . Constantly invigorating,surprising, and transfixing."-- The Times Literary Supplement "[A]sweeping, ambitious novel . . . Spectacularly well-written."-- The Wall Street Journal "Remarkable achievements . . . The Sport of Kings hovers between fiction, history, and myth, its characters sometimes like the ancient ones bound to their tales by fate, its horses distant kin to those who drew the chariot of time across the sky . . . Novelists can do things that other writers can''t--and Morgan can do things that other novelists can''t . . . Tremendous, the work of a writer just starting to show us what she can do."-- The New Yorker "Vivid epic of rage and racism on a Kentucky stud farm exposes the myth of the American dream."-- The Spectator (UK) "Spirited, fast and almost perfectly formed."-- The Times (UK) "With The Sport of Kings , C. E. Morgan has delivered a masterpiece. Rich, deep, and ambitious, this book is, by any standard, a Great American Novel."--Philipp Meyer, author of The Son "[ The Sport of Kings ] is an epic novel steeped in American history and geography . . . Morgan''s gothic tale of Southern decadence deepens into a searing investigation of racism''s enduring legacy . . . Vaultingly ambitious, thrillingly well-written, charged with moral fervor and rueful compassion. How will this dazzling writer astonish us next time?"-- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Morgan has dared to write the kind of book that was presumed long extinct: a high literary epic of America."-- The Telegraph (UK) "Sport of Kings boasts a plot that maintains tension and pace, and Morgan weaves its characters, its themes, its several histories together in a marvelous display of literary control and follow-through."-- Christian Science Monitor "[A] rich and compulsive new novel . . . This book confirms [Morgan] as the new torchbearer of the Southern Gothic tradition. . . ., "Remarkable achievements . . . The Sport of Kings hovers between fiction, history, and myth, its characters sometimes like the ancient ones bound to their tales by fate, its horses distant kin to those who drew the chariot of time across the sky . . . Novelists can do things that other writers can''t--and Morgan can do things that other novelists can''t . . . Tremendous, the work of a writer just starting to show us what she can do. " --Kathryn Shultz, New Yorker "Ravishing and ambitious ... It''s a mud-flecked epic, replete with fertile symbolism, that hurtles through generations of Kentucky history . . . [Morgan is] an interior writer, with deep verbal and intellectual resources . . . Ms. Morgan bears down incisively on topics -- the lust for speed and power and domination, the prison experience of black men, male camaraderie, the bonds between fathers and sons, the brute intricacies of the dirty Southern soul -- that men have tended to claim . . . [A] serious and important novel. "--Dwight Garner, New York Times "Morgan''s storytelling abilities match her deep characterization -- part of which is that she''s a writer of real virtuosity, and the narrative includes some of her set-piece "lessons," mock interviews, synthetic parables, and a retelling of the Eden myth in the style of Uncle Remus . . . Her concerns are Faulknerian in scope." -- Madison Smartt Bell, Boston Globe "One literary stereotype associates long, sprawling, ambitious novels with male writers . . . In this century, however, the finest ''major'' novels have more often than not been written by women. Zadie Smith, Donna Tartt, Eleanor Catton, Meg Wolitzer and Elena Ferrante are among those hitting the long balls in contemporary fiction, and with The Sport of Kings , a world-encompassing colossus second novel , C. E. Morgan has joined their ranks . . . Morgan is a virtuoso stylist, easily rendering the kinetics of horseracing, then plunging beneath the surface to illuminate the mysteries of genetic science. There will not be a novel with a larger and more dazzlingly deployed vocabulary published this year . . . a constantly invigorating, surprising and transfixing novel." --Michael LaPointe, The Times Literary Supplement "Majestic and sorrowful . . . with this extraordinary work, C.E. Morgan moves into the front rank of contemporary writers ." --Wendy Smith, Newsday "Vivid epic of rage and racism on a Kentucky stud farm exposes the myth of the American dream." -- The Spectator (UK) "Spirited, fast and almost perfectly formed."-- The Times (UK) "With The Sport of Kings , C. E. Morgan has delivered a masterpiece . Rich, deep, and ambitious, this book is, by any standard, a Great American Novel." --Philipp Meyer, author of The Son "[ The Sport of Kings ] is an epic novel steeped in American history and geography . . . Morgan''s gothic tale of Southern decadence deepens into a searing investigation of racism''s enduring legacy . . . Vaultingly ambitious, thrillingly well-written, charged with moral fervor and rueful compassion. How will this dazzling writer astonish us next time?" -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Morgan has dared to write the kind of book that was presumed long extinct: a high literary epic of America." --Duncan White, The Telegraph (UK) "[A] gorgeously textured novel ... Henrietta, possibly the most intellectually resplendent heroine I''ve met in a novel ... C.E. Morgan has more nerve, linguistic vitality and commitment to cosmic thoroughness in one join of her little finger than the next hundred contemporary novelists have in their entire bodies and vocabularies .... Nothing short of genius."--Jaimy Gordon, New York Times Book Review "Sport of Kings boasts a plot that maintains tension and pace, and Morgan weaves its characters, its themes, its several histories together in a marvelous display of literary control and follow-through."--Katherine A. Powers, Christian Science Monitor "[A] rich and compulsive new novel . . .
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