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 a starred review, Kirkus Reviews called the novel "vaultingly ambitious, thrillingly well-written, charged with moral fervor and rueful compassion."
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."
Awards and nominations Winner, 2016 Kirkus Prize for Fiction Finalist, 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Shortlist, 2017 Women's Prize for Fiction Shortlist, 2017 Rathbones Folio Prize Longlist, 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction Nominee, 2016 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction
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