The Sport of Kings : A Novel (Hardcover)

from novelcommentary

The Sport of Kings, finalist for this year's Pulitzer Prize, is an ambitious novel that weaves the stories of three people set to a background of Kentucky racehorse breeding and the making of greatness. First we meet John Henry Forge who grows up under the whip of his crop farming father only to ...

from froxgirl

This is a gigantic, scary book of horrors and horses. Set in the Kentucky bluegrass country, it explores racism at its most painful, from pre Civil War to modern day. It's such an encompassing, sexual, violent, and painful book, told from the PoVs of the last scion of the white Forge family, the ...

from alexrichman

Less than the sum of its parts. Or possibly more? It starts as yet another Great American Novel about a Great American Family, then takes a delightfully unexpected turn. However, once the novelty wore off, I couldn't help feeling that, as with the Underground Railroad, the characters were just ve...

from drenglish

Made it through, what, a quarter of the thing? Never one word where ten, or forty, will do. Self-consciously "beautiful" prose whose sentences nevertheless sag throughout from imprecision and overreach. If phrases like "pliant musk" don't set your teeth on edge--and there's more than one such on ...

from Opinionated

With The Sport of Kings, there is little doubt that C.E Morgan intends her version of the "Great American Novel". Because there is much more going on here than the overarching theme of breeding horses to future greatness. In fact, this is much more about the breeding of people and the impact of n...