Lord of Misrule
Jaimy Gordon
(Author)
Description
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION"Lord of Misrule" is a darkly realistic novel about a young woman living through a year of horse racing at a half-mile track in West Virginia, while everyone's best laid schemes keep going brutally wrong. With her first novel since her acclaimed "Bogeywoman" (1999), Jaimy Gordon bears comparison to other great writers of the American demimonde, such as Nathanael West, Damon Runyon, and Eudora Welty.
Product Details
Price
$25.00
$23.25
Publisher
McPherson
Publish Date
November 15, 2010
Pages
294
Dimensions
5.85 X 1.01 X 8.78 inches | 1.12 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9780929701837
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About the Author
Keith Waldrop, Brooke Russell Astor Professor of Humanities at Brown University, has published more than a dozen works each of original poetry and translations. His first book, A Windmill Near Calvary, was shortlisted for the 1968 National Book Award. Other books include The Real Subject: Queries and Conjectures of Jacob Delafon, with Sample Poems, The House Seen from Nowhere, and a translation of The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire.
