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The sport of kings
Title statement The sport of kings / C. E. Morgan ; George Newbern. Publication New York, New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016. Phys.des. 1 online resource (1 sound file) ISBN 9781427272652 (electronic audio bk.) 1427272654 (electronic audio bk.) Note Electronic audio file. Notes to Availability Přístup pouze pro oprávněné uživatele Poznámka o účinkujících Read by George Newbern. Another responsib. Newbern, George, Subj. Headings Families - Kentucky - Fiction. * Horses - Breeding - Fiction. * Horse racing - Fiction. * Families. * Horse racing. * Horses - Breeding. * FICTION / Literary. * LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General Geographic keywords Kentucky. Form, Genre elektronické knihy electronic books Conspect LIT - 004020 Country New York Language angličtina Document kind Electronic books URL Plný text pro studenty a zaměstnance UPOL sound recording
"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 endeavor, 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. A vital new voice, 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"--"A contemporary portrait of a family subsumed by the scars of slavery"--
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