This is the 2010 National Book Award winner that beat a Peter Carey novel that is likely better (I haven’t read it but it’s well-received) and the Karen Tei Yamashita novel I Hotel which is absolutely brilliant and fantastic. So I don’t know what happened here. This book, when you read about it, sounds great: a down on his luck horse guy has a great idea for one last great score by kind of fixing four races on a single day. Cool, sounds great. Oh, but […]
Without claiming races there would be no racing at all.
Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon