Bøger af C. E. Morgan

A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the Kirkus Prize for Fiction . A Recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction . A Finalist for the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction . A Finalist for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction . A Finalist for the Rathbones Folio Prize . Longlisted for an Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence . One of New York Times Book Review 100 Notable BookNamed a Best Book of the Year by Entertainment Weekly . GQ . The New York Times (Selected by Dwight Garner) . NPR . The Wall Street Journal . San Francisco Chronicle . Refinery29 . Booklist . Kirkus Reviews . Commonweal Magazine"In its poetic splendor and moral seriousness, The Sport of Kings bears the traces of Faulkner, Morrison, and McCarthy. . . . It is a contemporary masterpiece."-San Francisco Chronicle Hailed by The New Yorker for its "remarkable achievements," The Sport of Kings is an American tale centered on a horse and two families: one white, a Southern dynasty whose forefathers were among the founders of Kentucky; the other African-American, the descendants of their slaves.It is a dauntless narrative that stretches from the fields of the Virginia piedmont to the abundant pastures of the Bluegrass, and across the dark waters of the Ohio River; from the final shots of the Revolutionary War to the resounding clang of the starting bell at Churchill Downs. As C. E. Morgan unspools a fabric of shared histories, past and present converge in a Thoroughbred named Hellsmouth, heir to Secretariat and a contender for the Triple Crown. Newly confronted with one another in the quest for victory, the two families must face the consequences of their ambitions, as each is driven---and haunted---by the same, enduring question: How far away from your father can you run?A sweeping narrative of wealth and poverty, racism and rage, The Sport of Kings is an unflinching portrait of lives cast in the shadow of slavery and a moral epic for our time.

A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceOne of the National Book Foundation's 5 Best Writers Under 35Finalist for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for a distinguished book of fictionThird Place in Fiction for the Barnes & Noble Discover AwardAloma is an orphan, raised by her aunt and uncle, educated at a mission school in the Kentucky mountains. At the start of the novel, she moves to an isolated tobacco farm to be with her lover, a young man named Orren, whose family has died in a car accident, leaving him in charge. The place is rough and quiet; Orren is overworked and withdrawn. Left mostly to her own, Aloma struggles to settle herself in this lonely setting and to find beauty and stimulation where she can. As she decides whether to stay with Orren, she will choose either to fight her way to independence or accept the rigors of commitment.Both a drama of age-old conflicts and a portrait of modern life, C. E. Morgan's debut novel is "simply astonishing . . . a book about life force, the precious will to live, and all the things that can suck it right out of a person" (Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times).

Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Fiction Prize Winner of the Kirkus fiction prize