Lord of Misrule, Jaimy Gordon
Lord of Misrule, Jaimy Gordon
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Lord of Misrule

Author: Jaimy Gordon

Narrator: Myra Lucretia Taylor

Unabridged: 10 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/18/2010


Synopsis

Jaimy Gordon's engrossing Lord of Misrule is a National Book Award winner. In the early 1970s, horse trainer Tommy Hansel cooks up a crafty get-rich-quick scheme. But his plans go awry when everyone at the Indian Mound Downs track seems to be on to his shenanigans. Complicating matters further is Tommy's tragic love, Maggie. She adores the horses in all their rundown glory and becomes fascinated by the misfits who populate the backwater West Virginia track-including some local gangsters looking for a big score of their own. "Exceptional writing and idiosyncratic characters make this an engaging read."-Kirkus Reviews

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jeffrey

”She had her highborn air, dexter, and right next to it she had her lowborn air, sinister, which also came of being a Jew, an outcast, a gypsy, and not giving one goddamn. She could up and follow a racetracker, a coarse adventurer, if she so chose. Moreover you could get to her through her body. It......more

Goodreads review by Chuck

I guess, honestly, I must have missed something. I read this book for two reasons, because it won the National Book Award and because it was about horseracing, in which I have had great interest at various times in my life. Ah, but the National Book Award--Walker Percy for The Moviegoer, Alice McDer......more

Goodreads review by Daniel

The novel sit on the cracked counter of a Veloce chain coffee shop, crease-weary, and smelling of seven-year-old pages. The yellowing hadn't started, but that would come soon nough. One more coffee spill on her front page might make her a used up, spoiled thing, but she ain't no spoiled thing, and I......more

Goodreads review by Kathi

This was an enjoyable book to read for me, as I have been to small racetracks and lived on the backside, so knew all types of people as we all tried to ready our horses to bring home the money. The book is written beautifully, with descriptions of things and people that take me back. The folks on th......more