The Sport of Kings (novel) explained

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]

Notes and References

1. Web site: February 29, 2016 . The Sport of Kings by C.E. Morgan . December 9, 2020 . Kirkus Reviews.
2. Web site: March 7, 2016 . Fiction Book Review: The Sport of Kings by C.E. Morgan . December 9, 2020 . Publishers Weekly.
3. Web site: 2016 Kirkus Prize . December 9, 2020 . Kirkus Reviews.
4. Web site: Finalist: The Sport of Kings, by C. E. Morgan (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) . December 9, 2020 . The Pulitzer Prizes.
5. Web site: May 26, 2017 . Revealing the 2017 Shortlist... . December 9, 2020 . Women's Prize for Fiction.
6. Web site: Rathbones Folio Prize 2017 Shortlist . December 9, 2020 . Rathbones Folio Prize.
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8. Web site: July 26, 2017 . Your guide to the James Tait Black Prizes . December 9, 2020 . The University of Edinburgh.