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The Sport of Kings: A Novel
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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 of New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Book
    Named a Best Book of the Year by Entertainment Weekly
  • GQ
  • The New York Times (Selected by Dwight Garner)
  • NPR
  • The Wall Street Journal
  • San Francisco Chronicle
  • Refinery29
  • Booklist
  • Kirkus Reviews
  • Commonweal Magazine
    "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 by The New Yorker for its "remarkable achievements," The Sport of Kings 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.
    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 away from your father can you run?
    A sweeping narrative of wealth and poverty, racism and rage, The Sport of Kings is an unflinching portrait of lives cast in the shadow of slavery and a moral epic for our time.

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  • 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 of New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Book
    Named a Best Book of the Year by Entertainment Weekly
  • GQ
  • The New York Times (Selected by Dwight Garner)
  • NPR
  • The Wall Street Journal
  • San Francisco Chronicle
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  • Booklist
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  • 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 of New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Book
    Named a Best Book of the Year by Entertainment Weekly
  • GQ
  • The New York Times (Selected by Dwight Garner)
  • NPR
  • The Wall Street Journal
  • San Francisco Chronicle
  • Refinery29
  • Booklist
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  • Commonweal Magazine
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    Hailed by The New Yorker for its "remarkable achievements," The Sport of Kings 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.
    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 away from your father can you run?
    A sweeping narrative of wealth and poverty, racism and rage, The Sport of Kings is an unflinching portrait of lives cast in the shadow of slavery and a moral epic for our time.

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