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- The Sport of Kings is a 2016 novel by C. E. Morgan. It is a family saga about horse racing set in Kentucky and Ohio.
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The Sport of Kings is a 2016 novel by C. E. Morgan. It is a family saga about horse racing set in Kentucky and Ohio. It won the 2016 Kirkus Prize for Fiction and was a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
- C. E. Morgan
- 2016
May 1, 2016 · The Sport of Kings is a book about grief, longing, and the defiant pursuit of one's passion. With skillful pacing and adroit character development, this contemporary novel glows with the triumphant light of a literary masterpiece.
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Jun 10, 2016 · The Mephistopheles figure in “The Sport of Kings,” a novel that abounds with Faustian characters and dangerous learning, is a jockey himself.
A spiraling tale of wealth and poverty, racism and rage, The Sport of Kings is an unflinching portrait of lives cast in shadow by the enduring legacy of slavery. A vital new voice, C. E. Morgan has given life to a tale as mythic and fraught as the South itself - a moral epic for our time.
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The Sport of Kings is a novel by American author C.E. Morgan, first published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux in 2016. A sweeping multigenerational family saga set in Kentucky and Ohio, it tells the story of Henry Forge and his descendants as they grapple with a rapidly changing America, the lingering effects of slavery, and their passion for ...
May 17, 2016 · C. E. Morgan’s ravishing and ambitious new horse-world novel, “The Sport of Kings,” taps into that nature and need. It’s a mud-flecked epic, replete with fertile symbolism, that hurtles...
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...
