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008			151106s2016 enk 000 1 eng d
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020			_a9780007313273
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100			_aMorgan, C. E., _d1976- _eauthor. _926159
245	1	4	_aThe sport of kings / _cC. E. Morgan.
260			_aLondon _bFourth Estate Ltd, _c2016.
300			_a545 pages ; _c24 cm.
520			_aAuthor of 'All The Living', C. E. Morgan has crafted an American myth, a contemporary portrait of the scars of the past that run through a family, and of our desperate need to escape our history, to subsume it with pleasure - or to rise above it with glory. Hellsmouth, a willful thoroughbred filly with the blood of Triple Crown winners flowing through her veins, has the legacy of the Forges riding on her. One of the oldest and proudest families in Kentucky, the Forge family is as mythic as the history of the South itself. Descended from one of the first settlers to brave the Gap, Henry Forge, through an act of naked ambition, is attempting to blaze a new path, breeding horses on the family's crop farm. His daughter, Henrietta, becomes his partner in the endeavour, although she has desires of her own. Their conflict escalates when Allmon Shaughnessy, a black man fresh from prison, comes to work in the stables, and the ugliness of the farm's past and the exigencies of appetite become evident. Together, the three stubbornly try to create a new future through sheer will - one that isn't written in their very fabric - while they mold Hellsmouth into a champion. The Sport of Kings has the grace of a parable and the force of an epic. A majestic story of speed and hunger, racism and justice, this novel is an astonishment from start to finish.
650		0	_aFamilies _zKentucky _vFiction. _926160
650		0	_aHorses _xBreeding _vFiction.
655		0	_aDomestic fiction _9147
650		0	_912506 _aHorse racing _vFiction.
651		0	_913520 _aKentucky _vFiction.
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