{"product_id":"9781250131843","title":"The Sport of Kings : A Novel","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe Sport of Kings\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): C. E. Morgan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Kirkus Prize for Fiction \u003c\/b\u003e• \u003cb\u003eA Recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e • \u003cb\u003eA Finalist for the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction \u003c\/b\u003e• \u003cb\u003eA Finalist for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e • \u003cb\u003eA Finalist for the Rathbones Folio Prize \u003c\/b\u003e• \u003cb\u003eLonglisted for an Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence\u003c\/b\u003e • \u003cb\u003eOne of\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBook Review \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e100 Notable Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e• \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGQ\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e•\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e (Selected by Dwight Garner) \u003c\/b\u003e•\u003cb\u003e NPR \u003c\/b\u003e• \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e• \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e• \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRefinery29\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e•\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e• \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eKirkus Reviews \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e•\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e Commonweal \u003c\/i\u003eMagazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"In its poetic splendor and moral seriousness, The Sport of Kings bears the traces of Faulkner, Morrison, and McCarthy. . . . It is a contemporary masterpiece.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHailed by \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e for its “remarkable achievements,” \u003ci\u003eThe Sport of Kings\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA sweeping narrative of wealth and poverty, racism and rage,\u003ci\u003e The Sport of Kings\u003c\/i\u003e is an unflinching portrait of lives cast in the shadow of slavery and a moral epic for our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"C.E. Morgan’s \u003ci\u003eThe Sport of Kings\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of this year's best novels.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Magnificent.\"—\u003ci\u003eGQ\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe San Diego Union-Tribune\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ravishing and ambitious . . . [A] serious and important novel.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A]sprawling, magisterial Southern Gothic for the twenty-first century.\"—\u003ci\u003eO, The Oprah Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Majestic and sorrowful . . . With this extraordinary work, C.E. Morgan moves into the front rank of contemporary writers.”—\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/i\u003e (A Year in Reading)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A world-encompassing colossus of a second novel . . . Constantly invigorating,surprising, and transfixing.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A]sweeping, ambitious novel . . . Spectacularly well-written.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Remarkable achievements . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Sport of Kings\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Vivid epic of rage and racism on a Kentucky stud farm exposes the myth of the American dream.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Spectator \u003c\/i\u003e(UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Spirited, fast and almost perfectly formed.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e (UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With \u003ci\u003eThe Sport of Kings\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Son\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eThe Sport of Kings\u003c\/i\u003e] 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?\"—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Morgan has dared to write the kind of book that was presumed long extinct: a high literary epic of America.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Telegraph \u003c\/i\u003e(UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"—\u003ci\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] rich and compulsive new novel . . . This book confirms [Morgan] as the new torchbearer of the Southern Gothic tradition. . . . What emerges is a panoramic view of race relations in America, from the slow crumbling of the Jim Crow laws until shortly before the election of Barack Obama, with occasional glimpses into the more distant past. Racing provides the novel’s overarching metaphor for race (a set of tracks that determine the course of a life, and for which the correct breeding is essential), and Morgan’s white characters are hardly less constricted by history than her black ones. . . . It’s a bleak and bitter inversion of the American dream — a world in which circumstances are impossible to change, and legacies impossible to shake.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Financial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShort-listed Kirkus Prize Finalists (2016), Long-listed The Telegraph (UK) Best Books of the Year (2016), Long-listed Entertainment Weekly Best Books of the Year (2016), Short-listed Women's Prize for Fiction - Shortlist (2017), Long-listed NPR Best Book of the Year (2016), Long-listed Amazon.com Best Books of the Year (2016), Long-listed San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year (2016), Long-listed New York Times Book Review Notable Books of the Year (2016), Long-listed Wall Street Journal Best Books of the Year (2016), Long-listed Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year (2016), Short-listed Folio Prize Shortlist (2017), Short-listed Pulitzer Prize - Finalist (2017), Winner Kirkus Prize Winner (2016), Long-listed Booklist Editors' Choice (2016)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781250131843\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40619700748494,"sku":"9781250131843","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781250131843","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}