The Sport of Kings
  • Published:
    May-2016 (Hardcover)
    May-2017 (Paperback)
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  • Main Genre:
    Literary
  • Time Period:
    Contemporary
  • Pages:
    560
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Hellsmouth, an indomitable Thoroughbred with the blood of Triple Crown winners in her veins, runs for the glory of the Forge family, one of Kentucky's oldest and most powerful dynasties. Henry Forge has partnered with his daughter, Henrietta, in an endeavor of raw obsession: to breed the next superhorse, the next Secretariat. But when Allmon Shaughnessy, an ambitious young black man, comes to work on their farm, the violence of the Forges' history and the exigencies of appetite are brought starkly into view. Entangled in fear, prejudice, and lust, the three tether their personal dreams of glory to the speed and grace of Hellsmouth.

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. C. E. Morgan, who received a 2016 Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction, has given life to a tale as mythic and fraught as the South itself―a moral epic for our time.
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    •  
    • May-2017
    • Picador
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1250131847
    • ISBN13: 9781250131843
    •  
    • Apr-2017
    • HarperCollins (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0008173311
    • ISBN13: 9780008173319
    • First Edition
    • May-2016
    • Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0374281084
    • ISBN13: 9780374281083
    •  
    • Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0594784743
    • ISBN13: 9780594784746
    •  
    • May-2016
    • Fourth Estate (UK)
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0007313284
    • ISBN13: 9780007313280
    •  
    • May-2016
    • Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0374715173
    • ISBN13: 9780374715175
    •  
    • May-2016
    • Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • May-2016
    • Knopf (Canada)
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0307375722
    • ISBN13: 9780307375728
    •  
    • May-2016
    • HarperCollins Publishers Limited
    • Audible
    •  
    • May-2016
    • MacMillan Audio
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1427272662
    • ISBN13: 9781427272669



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