- Race horses, Horse racing, Fiction, New York Times reviewed
Lord of Misrule follows five characters - scarred and lonely dreamers - through a year and four races at Indian Mound Downs, downriver from Wheeling, West Virginia.
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Contemporary, grave, classical in form and earnest.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Jaimy Gordon
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 294
- Publisher
- Vintage Contemporaries, Vintage, McPherson
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780929701837
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