The Sport of Kings (novel)
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| Author | C. E. Morgan |
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| Audio read by | George Newbern |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Family saga |
| Set in | Kentucky and Ohio |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
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Publication date
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May 3, 2016 |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 560 |
| Awards | Kirkus Prize (2016) |
| ISBN | 978-0-374-28108-3 |
| OCLC | 918995087 |
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| LC Class | PS3613.O73 S68 2016 |
The Sport of Kings is a 2016 novel by C. E. Morgan. It is a family saga about horse racing set in Kentucky and Ohio.
It won the 2016 Kirkus Prize for Fiction and was a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Reception
In its starred review, Kirkus Reviews called the novel "vaultingly ambitious, thrillingly well-written, charged with moral fervor and rueful compassion."[1]
Publishers Weekly praised the novel's "authentically pungent shed-row atmosphere" but criticized its "series of melodramatic incidents that undermines the care with which Morgan has created these larger-than-life characters."[2]
Awards and nominations
- Winner, 2016 Kirkus Prize for Fiction[3]
- Finalist, 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction[4]
- Shortlist, 2017 Women's Prize for Fiction[5]
- Shortlist, 2017 Rathbones Folio Prize[6]
- Longlist, 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction[7]
- Nominee, 2016 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction[8]
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