About the book
Daring and inventive, this sprawling family saga set in Kentucky combines southern gothic with the drama of horse racing.
An ambitious, strikingly original novel from a young writer whose first novel, All the Living, received passionate praise and rave reviews, and earned her one of the highly coveted spots on The New Yorker's list of the \"20 Best Writers Under 40.\" This latest novel's energy bursts out of the gate running and gallops through generations, consuming a multitude of characters and plots.
The title The Sport of Kings refers to horse racing, and the novel is centred within that world: a connected web of humans and animals, as well as a fertile patch of land, in the heart of Kentucky. With breathtaking fluency, C.E. Morgan puts us inside the consciousness of an extraordinary range of characters who inhabit that patch of land through the years: an adolescent trying to grow up under the withering gaze of his landowner father; a brilliant black woman struggling with her seeming fate to be a household servant; a whip-smart boy who grows up in the ghetto but seeks to know more about his mysterious origins; and a girl whose uncompromising love of her family's legacy leads her to gamble with her own life.
A spiraling tale of wealth and poverty, racism and rage, The Sport of Kings is an unflinching portrait of lives cast in shadow by the enduring legacy of slavery. A tale as mythic and fraught as the South itself-- this novel is a moral epic for our time.
Editions of The Sport of Kings
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9780307397355
- Paperback
- ISBN 9780307397362
- EBook
- ISBN 9780307375728
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Daring and inventive, this sprawling family saga set in Kentucky combines southern gothic with the drama of horse racing.
An ambitious, strikingly original novel from a young writer whose first novel, All the Living, received passionate praise and rave reviews, and earned her one of the highly coveted spots on The New Yorker's list of the \"20 Best Writers Under 40.\" This latest novel's energy bursts out of the gate running and gallops through generations, consuming a multitude of characters and plots.
The title The Sport of Kings refers to horse racing, and the novel is centred within that world: a connected web of humans and animals, as well as a fertile patch of land, in the heart of Kentucky. With breathtaking fluency, C.E. Morgan puts us inside the consciousness of an extraordinary range of characters who inhabit that patch of land through the years: an adolescent trying to grow up under the withering gaze of his landowner father; a brilliant black woman struggling with her seeming fate to be a household servant; a whip-smart boy who grows up in the ghetto but seeks to know more about his mysterious origins; and a girl whose uncompromising love of her family's legacy leads her to gamble with her own life.
A spiraling tale of wealth and poverty, racism and rage, The Sport of Kings is an unflinching portrait of lives cast in shadow by the enduring legacy of slavery. A tale as mythic and fraught as the South itself-- this novel is a moral epic for our time.
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What is The Sport of Kings about?
Daring and inventive, this sprawling family saga set in Kentucky combines southern gothic with the drama of horse racing.
An ambitious, strikingly original novel from a young writer whose first novel, All the Living, received passionate praise and rave reviews, and earned her one of the highly coveted spots on The New Yorker's list of the \"20 Best Writers Under 40.\" This latest novel's energy bursts out of the gate running and gallops through generations, consuming a multitude of characters and plots.
The title The Sport of Kings refers to horse racing, and the novel is centred within that world: a connected web of humans and animals, as well as a fertile patch of land, in the heart of Kentucky. With breathtaking fluency, C.E. Morgan puts us inside the consciousness of an extraordinary range of characters who inhabit that patch of land through the years: an adolescent trying to grow up under the withering gaze of his landowner father; a brilliant black woman struggling with her seeming fate to be a household servant; a whip-smart boy who grows up in the ghetto but seeks to know more about his mysterious origins; and a girl whose uncompromising love of her family's legacy leads her to gamble with her own life.
A spiraling tale of wealth and poverty, racism and rage, The Sport of Kings is an unflinching portrait of lives cast in shadow by the enduring legacy of slavery. A tale as mythic and fraught as the South itself-- this novel is a moral epic for our time.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in The Sport of Kings?
Fiction > Fiction: literary and general non-genre
Where can I read a sample of The Sport of Kings?
You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9780307397355
Who is/are the Author/s of the book The Sport of Kings?
C.E. Morgan
Who is the Publisher of the book The Sport of Kings?
Knopf Canada
What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?
The Sport of Kings is available as hardcover(ISBN 9780307397355) and paperback(ISBN 9780307397362) and ebook(ISBN 9780307375728)
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