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Winner of the 2010 National Book Award for Fiction
McPherson & Co.
November 2010
On Sale: November 15, 2010
Featuring: Tommy Hansel; Margaret Koderer
296 pages
ISBN: 0929701836
EAN: 9780929701837
Hardcover
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Thoroughbred horse trainer Tommy Hansel has a scheme to
rescue his failing operation by shipping four unclassed
horses to Indian Mound Downs, run them in cheap claimers at
long odds, and then get out fast before anyone notices. The
problem is, at this rundown riverfront half-mile racetrack
in the West Virginia panhandle, everybody notices from the
start -- Kidstuff the farrier, track super Smithers, an old
groom Medicine Ed, gypsy owner Deucey Gifford, eventually
even the ruled-off bookmaker Two-Tie, and an ominous
trainer, Joe Dale Bigg. But no one factors in Hansel's
go-for girlfriend, Margaret Koderer. Much like the
beautiful, used-up, tragic creatures she comes to love,
Maggie is almost a force of nature, an adventuress with
enough personal magnetism to spin everyone's sure thing
right back to the source of all luck. Lord of
Misrule is a darkly realistic novel about a young woman
living through a year of horse racing while everyone's best
laid plans go brutally wrong. With her first novel since her
acclaimed Bogeywoman, Jaimy Gordon bears comparison
to other great writers of the American demimonde, such as
Nathanael West, Damon Runyon, and Eudora Welty.
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