Lord of misrule
By: by Jaimy Gordon
Publisher: Quercus
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780857386694; 9780857386700
Subjects: Horse racing; Fiction; Swindlers and swindling
Description: Lord of Misrule follows five characters - scarred and lonely dreamers - through a year and four races at Indian Mound Downs, downriver from Wheeling, West Virginia.
Notes: 2010 National Book Award for Fiction.

2011 Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
Table of contents: title: "National book award winner"; title: cover. -At the rock-bottom end of the sport of kings sits the ruthless and often violent world of cheap horse racing, where trainers and jockeys, grooms and hotwalkers, loan sharks and touts all struggle to take an edge, or prove their luck, or just survive. Equal parts Nathanael West, Damon Runyon and Eudora Welty, Lord of Misrule follows five characters, scarred and lonely dreamers in the American grain, through a year and four races at Indian Mount Downs, downriver from Wheeling, West Virginia; title: from dust jacket.