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Lord of Misrule
by Jaimy Gordon
National Book Award for Fiction · 2010 · Winner
McPherson & Companyliterary-fiction
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| National Book Award for FictionFiction | 2010 | Winner |
About This Book
Set at the low-rent racetrack of Indian Mound Downs in West Virginia, the novel follows a small-time horse trainer and his girlfriend as they arrive at the track with four broken-down horses and enter the world of gamblers, hustlers, and small-time criminals that inhabits the margins of the sport. An evocative, densely vernacular novel about American losers and dreamers.
About the Author
Jaimy GordonAmerican
Jaimy Gordon is an American novelist and short story writer born in Baltimore in 1944. She studied at Antioch College and Brown University, where she earned her MFA. Lord of Misrule (2010) won the National Book Award for Fiction and was widely noted for its richly idiosyncratic prose style set in the world of low-stakes horse racing. Read more →
