Lord of Misrule

A brilliant novel that captures the dusty, dark, and beautiful world of small time horse racing, where trainers, jockeys, grooms and grifters vie for what little luck is offered at a run down West Virginia track.Tommy Hansel has a plan run four horses, all better than they look on paper, at long odds at Indian Mound Downs, then grab the purse or cash a bet and run before anyone s the wiser At his side is Maggie Koderer, who finds herself powerfully drawn to the gorgeous, used up animals of the cheap track She also lands in the cross hairs of leading trainer Joe Dale Bigg But as news of Tommy s plan spreads, from veteran groom Medicine Ed, to loan shark Two Tie, to Kidstuff the blacksmith, it s Maggie, not Tommy or the handlers of legendary stakes horse Lord of Misrule, who will find what s valuable in a world where everything has a price. Best Read [ Lord of Misrule ] Author [ Jaimy Gordon ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr She had her highborn air, dexter, and right next to it she had her lowborn air, sinister, which also came of being a Jew, an outcast, a gypsy, and not giving one goddamn She could up and follow a racetracker, a coarse adventurer, if she so chose Moreover you could get to her through her body It was a black, rich, well watered way, between rock faces The word podzol came to mind The word humus Soil Slut You could ask all you wanted of that flesh, you could whisper outrages into her ear a She had her highborn air, dexter, and right next to it she had he...I guess, honestly, I must have missed something I read this book for two reasons, because it won the National Book Award and because it was about horseracing, in which I have had great interest at various times in my life Ah, but the National Book Award Walker Percy for The Moviegoer, Alice McDermott for Charming Billy, Saul Bellow for The Adventures of Augie March, Bernard Malamud for The Fixer Add Lord of Misrule to these and it is an easy game of Which Doesn t Belong and Why It is poss I guess, honestly, I must have missed something I read this book for two reasons, because it won the National Book Award and because it was about horseracing, in which I have had great interest at various times in my life Ah, but the National Book Award Walker Percy for The Moviegoer, Alice McDermott ...I had a love hate relationship with this book, or at least a like hate relationship I have to admit I m surprised it won a National Book Award That s the best there is out there Ugh It is everything stereotypically bad about the backside of a racetrack Broken down claimers held together with glue and a myriad of drugs, legal and illegal , gamblers fixing races, the organized crime mafioso lording it over the lesser humans at the track, a brutal breakdown during a race, and a woman in starr I had a love hate relationship with this book, or at least a like hate relationship I have to admit I m surprised it won a National Book Award That s the best there is out there Ugh It is everything stereotypically bad about the backside of a racetrack Broken down claimers held together with glue and a myriad of drugs, legal a...The novel sit on the cracked counter of a Veloce chain coffee shop, crease weary, and smelling of seven year old pages The yellowing hadn t started, but that would come soon nough Onecoffee spill on her front page might make her a used up, spoiled thing, but she ain t no spoiled thing, and I be careful where I put my coffee She s still got three or four good reads in her, yet In older days, she would be read up 20 to 30 times before people lose interest Then she d sit on the shelf of The novel sit on the cracked counter of a Veloce chain coffee shop, crease weary, and smelling of seven year old pages The yellowing hadn t started, but that would come soon nough Onecoffee spill on her front page might make her a used up, spoiled thing, but she ain t no sp...this book is really, really, really good and you must read it it may not be for everyone what book is but, man, this woman can write, and the story is fantastic i love these characters i love the horses i love the low fog that keeps you from seeing your feet at 4 in the morning i like how madness slowly creeps into a character and makes him both repellant and awesome i like the tough women i LOVE medicine ed it s a small world but so, so rich kind of like a family run freak show, but this book is really, really, really good and you must read it it may not be for everyone what book is but, man, this woman can write, and the story is fantastic i love these characters i love the horses i love the low fog that keeps you from seeing your feet at 4 in the morning i like how madness slowly creeps into a character and makes him both repellant and awesome i like the tough women i LOVE medici...This was an enjoyable book to read for me, as I have been to small racetracks and lived on the backside, so knew all types of people as we all tried to ready our horses to bring home the money The book is written beautifully, with descriptions of things and people that take me back The folks on the backstretch live a tough life, you work hard to keep feeding your animals and yourself, it is a city unto itself Rarely does anyone leave the racetrack, you eat in t...I can see how this is the kind of thing people like it s written in poetical dialect, and it focuses on a very oldfashioned, very specific subculture, and racing is the kind of space that brings people together, so you can have the old black groom, and the young jewish woman, and the crazy irishman And since it takes place in the fuzzy old 1970s, there wereregionalisms, no cellphones, less stuff I don t know It was enjoyable enough in its own way, and maybe it s partly difficult I can see how this is the kind of thi...Well this one really fizzles out I stuck with it to the end, because I did enjoy the style I was in the mood to be challenged by a book, and Lord of Misrule is challenging No skimming you have to read every word and some sentences arelike puzzles Dialect and racing argot and convoluted syntax and weird nicknames It was not a harming goofer that Medicine Ed knew the making of And no quotation marks to help you follow the dialogue ______Medicine Ed laughed a little I reckon that G Well this one really fizzles out I stuck with it to the end, because I did enjoy the style I was in the mood to be challenged by a book, and Lord of Misrule is challenging No skimming you have to read every word and some sentences arelike puzzles Dialect and racing argot and convoluted syntax and weird nicknames It was not a harming goofer that Medicine Ed knew the making of And no quotation marks to help you follow the dialogue ______Medicine Ed laughed a little I reckon that Grizzly nerved in all four feet, he said I know he don t feel no pain.Hell he is Two s plenty, Deucey snapped Translation Medicine Ed laughed a little I reckon that Grizzly has had the nerve supplies cut to all four of his feet surgery to numb a racehorse s...Lord of Misrule is the story of the trainers, grooms, jockeys and assorted hangers on at a seedy racetrack in West Virginia I love horse racing and so I eagerly anticipated the novel, especially after learning that it had won the National Book Award Unfortunately, little about the story rang true The story is told from the point of view of several characters, a technique that is quickly becoming hackneyed One of the characters is Medicine Ed, the African American groom Ed s narration is su Lord of Misrule is the story of the trainers, grooms, jockeys and assorted hangers on at a seedy racetrack in West Virginia I love horse racing and so I eagerly anticipated the novel, especially after learning that it had won the National Book Award Unfortunately, little about the story rang true The story is told from the point of view of several characters, a technique that is quickly becoming hackneyed One of the characters is Medicine Ed, the African American groom Ed s narration is such a cari...This novel invites the reader into the lives of broken people in broken relationships populating the seedy backside of a small race track in West Virginia Gordon masterfully captures the colloquial slang of the horse race scene in both the dialogues and internal monologues of the characters In fact, it is so authentic that I was often confused about what was actually being communicated Violent sex, murd...

• English
• 26 October 2017
Jaimy Gordon
• Hardcover
• 294 pages
• 0929701836
• Jaimy Gordon
• Lord of Misrule