Lord of Misrule
Jaimy Gordon "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.-- "book cover"
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: McPherson
Published: 11/15/2010
ISBN: 9780929701837
Pages: 294
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 8.78h x 5.85w x 1.01d
Award: National Book Awards - Winner
Award: PEN/Faulkner Award - Finalist
Award: IndieFab awards - Silver Medal Winner
Award: Michigan Notable Books - Winner
Award: Independent Publisher Book Awards - Gold Medal Winner
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2010
Publishers Weekly 10/11/2010
Booklist 11/15/2010 pg. 22
New Yorker (The) 01/03/2011 pg. 69
Booklist Editors Choice/Adult 01/01/2011 pg. 8
Foreword 11/18/2010
Entertainment Weekly 09/04/2015 pg. 45