{"product_id":"c-e-morgan-the-sport-of-kings-9781250131843","title":"The Sport of Kings","description":"A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the Kirkus Prize for Fiction ¿ A Recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction ¿ A Finalist for the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction ¿ A Finalist for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction ¿ A Finalist for the Rathbones Folio Prize ¿ Longlisted for an Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence ¿ One of New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Book Named a Best Book of the Year by Entertainment Weekly ¿ GQ ¿ The New York Times (Selected by Dwight Garner) ¿ NPR ¿ The Wall Street Journal ¿ San Francisco Chronicle ¿ Refinery29 ¿ Booklist ¿ Kirkus Reviews ¿ Commonweal Magazine \"In its poetic splendor and moral seriousness, The Sport of Kings bears the traces of Faulkner, Morrison, and McCarthy. . . . It is a contemporary masterpiece.\"-San Francisco Chronicle Hailed by The New Yorker for its \"remarkable achievements,\" The Sport of Kings is an American tale centered on a horse and two families: one white, a Southern dynasty whose forefathers were among the founders of Kentucky; the other African-American, the descendants of their slaves. It is a dauntless narrative that stretches from the fields of the Virginia piedmont to the abundant pastures of the Bluegrass, and across the dark waters of the Ohio River; from the final shots of the Revolutionary War to the resounding clang of the starting bell at Churchill Downs. As C. E. Morgan unspools a fabric of shared histories, past and present converge in a Thoroughbred named Hellsmouth, heir to Secretariat and a contender for the Triple Crown. Newly confronted with one another in the quest for victory, the two families must face the consequences of their ambitions, as each is driven---and haunted---by the same, enduring question: How far away from your father can you run? A sweeping narrative of wealth and poverty, racism and rage, The Sport of Kings is an unflinching portrait of lives cast in the shadow of slavery and a moral epic for our time.","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Used - good","offer_id":53376992870742,"sku":"9781250131843-G","price":1.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9781250131843_1_66f66019-9e4e-4ebc-b304-52c3175b0735.jpg?v=1781646025","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/c-e-morgan-the-sport-of-kings-9781250131843","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}