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And we have not considered the horses who like the humans have seen better days. Her second novel, she drove without stopping, brought her an academyinstitute award for her fiction from the american academy of arts and letters. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. National book awardfinalist gordons new novel begins and ends at a backwoods race track in early1970s west virginia, where horse trainer tommy hansel dreams up a scam. With her first novel since her acclaimed bogeywoman 1999, jaimy gordon bears comparison to other great writers of the american demimonde, such as nathanael west, damon runyon, and eudora. Jaimy gordons victory last night at the national book awards was a classic underdog moment, about a littleknown writer with a littleseen book who overcame long odds to capture the prize and, at least for one night, revel in the glory or swoon out of disbelief. Lord of misrule vintage contemporaries kindle edition.

So it was a shock when lord of misrule, a new novel set at a bottomlevel west virginia racetrack in the early 1970s, was named one of the five finalists for the national book award for fiction, a prize that has been won by literary giants such as william faulkner, john updike and saul bellow. Lord of misrule is an exuberant, jazzy novel about rough characters both equine and twofooted caught up in a shabby, halfmile racetrack downriver from wheeling, w. Jaimy gordons novel lord of misrule, which won the national book award for fiction last month, was such a long shot that even ms. She teaches at western michigan university in kalamazoo and in the prague summer program for writers, and received an academyinstitute award for her fiction from the american academy of arts and letters.

Gordon s language is so textured that her pages seem threedimensional. Lord of misrule is a darkly realistic novel about a young woman living through a year of horse racing at a halfmile track in west virginia, while everyones best laid schemes keep going brutally wrong. There is a reason lord of misrule won the national book award. Lord of misrule winner, national book awards 2010 for fiction. Jaimy gordons lord of misrule, a national book award. Jaimy gordon blends these ingredients into a moving contemplation of striving, dreaming, and the human condition. Jaimy gordons lord of misrule, dark horse winner the.

Gordon has been a fellow of the fine arts work center in provincetown. Jaimy gordons lord of misrule is a novel about horse racing at a small time track in west virginia, where wornout horses, trainers, jockeys, grooms and. Jaimy gordon born july 4, 1944, is an american writer. The book is divided into four sections, each concerned with one of four horse races at a down on the luck. A brilliant novel that captures the dusty, dark, and beautiful wor. The book is divided into four sections, each concerned with one of four horse races at a down on the luck racetrack. At this racetrack, rundown, secondgrade horses are frequently raced, bought and sold. Gordon expertly employees four separate thirdperson narrators well, one is actually secondperson throughout the entire book. Lord of misrule was awarded the national award for fiction 2010. Gordon structures the narrative around the four horses, the last best hope being lord of misrule, and she seamlessly moves the reader from one narrative consciousness to another without being manipulative or intrusive. Lord of misrule is set in west virginia on a fictional, lowerclass racing track called indian mound downs. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction. Lord of misrule is a 2011 novel by american author jaimy gordon.

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