Lord of Misrule

English

ISBN: 0929701836

EAN: 9780929701837

Category: Fiction / Sports

Publisher: McPherson & Company

Release Date: 11/30/2010

Synopsis: Thoroughbred horse trainer Tommy Hansel has a scheme to rescue his failing operation by shipping four ringers to Indian Mound Downs, run them in cheap claimers at long odds, and then get out fast before anyone notices. The problem is, at this rundown riverfront half-mile racetrack in the West Virginia panhandle, everybody notices from the start Kidstuff the farrier, track super Smithers, an old groom Medicine Ed, gypsy owner Deucey Gifford, eventually even the ruled-off bookmaker Two-Tie, and a sadistic trainer, Joe Dale Bigg. But no-one factors in Hansels go-for girlfriend, Margaret Koderer. Much like the beautiful, used-up, tragic creatures she comes to love, Maggie is almost a force of nature, an adventuress with enough personal magnetism to send the sure thing back to the source of all luck. Lord of Misrule is a darkly realistic novel about a young woman living through a year of horse racing while everyones best laid plans go brutally wrong.

Awards: National Book Awards – null  PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction – null 

Lord of Misrule

Illustrated: No

Format: Hardcover

Height: 1.0 inches

Width: 5.75 inches

Length: 8.75 inches

Weight: 17.64 oz

Pages: 296