The Sport of Kings

C. E. Morgan

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ISBN 10: 0007313268 ISBN 13: 9780007313266

Published by Fourth Estate, 2016

Language: English

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Title: The Sport of Kings
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Publication Date: 2016
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0007313268
ISBN 13: 9780007313266
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition, Limited Edition
Condition: New
Dust Jacket Condition: New
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Sport of Kings

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An Amazon Best Book of May 2016: The Sport of Kings is American and epic, a novel of lineage and legacy, race horses and racism, power and poverty. It’s graceful, provocative and at the right stretches, heart-pounding. Weaving together different centuries and narratives, C.E. Morgan exposes the soft and hardened edges of humanity with crushing clarity. The Forge family is Kentucky royalty: their land and wealth has been handed down for generations and Henrietta, the daughter of Henry Forge, stands to inherit it all. With his daughter by his side, Henry sets out to breed and race the fastest horse in history. In a neighboring town, Allmon Shaughnessy, an African American boy, comes of age in a world seeped in discrimination and violence. Years later, Allmon arrives at the Forge farm determined to remake his own story. It’s there that his fate will become forever entwined with the Forge’s, as Henry, Henrietta and Allmon, each stake their future in Hellsmouth, a filly bred from champions that could win it all. Fueled by beauty and rage, lust and violence, The Sport of Kings concludes with an ending that is as adrenaline fueled as Hellsmouth’s last turn at the Kentucky Derby. C.E. Morgan’s novel is a magnificent achievement, one that grapples with the weight of the past and the near universal desire to make your own destiny. --Al Woodworth

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