The Sport of Kings: A Novel [Paperback]

A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize

Winner of the Kirkus Prize for Fiction A Recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction A Finalist for the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction A Finalist for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction A Finalist for the Rathbones Folio Prize Longlisted for an Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence One ofNew York TimesBook Review100 Notable Book

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In its poetic splendor and moral seriousness, The Sport of Kings bears the traces of Faulkner, Morrison, and McCarthy. . . . It is a contemporary masterpiece. San Francisco Chronicle

Hailed byThe New Yorkerfor its remarkable achievements,The Sport of Kingsis 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.

It 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 alcr