The Sport of Kings (86 page)

 

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

My deepest gratitude to Will Guild; Jonathan Galassi and Ellen Levine; Adam Clay Griffey; Terry and Bernice Morgan and Max Schweitzer; my friends; Sally Rhoads; Eugene Startzman; Barbara Napier; the Lannan Foundation; the USA Foundation; the Whiting Foundation; the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library; the Kentucky Arts Council; and Hank, a great spirit who accompanied me along the way.

 

ALSO BY
C. E. MORGAN

All the Living

 

A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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CONTENTS

TITLE PAGE

COPYRIGHT NOTICE

DEDICATION

EPIGRAPH

MAP

1     THE STRANGE FAMILY OF THINGS

INTERLUDE I

2     THE SPIRIT OF LESSER ANIMALS

INTERLUDE II

3     NOTHING BUT A BURNING LIGHT

INTERLUDE III

4     THE SURVIVAL MACHINE

INTERLUDE IV

5     HELLSMOUTH

INTERLUDE V

6     THE INTERPRETATION OF HORSES

EPILOGUE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ALSO BY C. E. MORGAN

A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

COPYRIGHT

 

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Copyright © 2016 by C. E. Morgan

Map copyright © 2016 by Jeffrey L. Ward

All rights reserved

First edition, 2016

Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the following material:

“How to Identify a Thoroughbred” from The Jockey Club Registry, reprinted with permission of The Jockey Club. Copyright © 2016 The Jockey Club. Secretariat's measurements from the
Daily Racing Form
copyright © 2016 by Daily Racing Form, LLC. Reprinted with permission of the copyright owner.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Morgan, C. E., 1976– author.

Title: The sport of kings / C. E. Morgan.

Description: First edition. | New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015038512 | ISBN 9780374281083 (hardback) | ISBN 9780374715175 (e-book)

Subjects: LCSH: Families—Kentucky—Fiction. | Horses—Breeding—Fiction. | Horse racing—Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Literary.

Classification: LCC PS3613.O73 S68 2016 | DDC 813/.6—dc23

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