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Keeneland

Autor Alyson Hagy
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 apr 2000
From award-winning writer Alyson Hagy comes a novel set at Kentucky's Keeneland racetrack, where the horses run for glory and people stake love and money -- all to win at the sport of kings.

Hagy, a compelling storyteller who has the "same way with language as her characters have with animals" "(San Jose Mercury News), " introduces Kerry Connelly, a skilled exercise rider who hasn't yet learned that liking a horse doesn't make it faster but loving one means genuine risk. Kerry -- who can hardly remember a day she hasn't put sweat in the saddle -- is more or less healthy, more or less single, and technically broke. She's come back to home turf, the sweet Kentucky bluegrass of Keeneland, one step ahead of her estranged husband, Eric. A trainer fueled by drugs and money dreams, he's got control of Kerry's champion mare, Sunsquall, and has New York loan sharks after them all.

"Keeneland" may not be much of a haven, as Kerry's shadowy past has not been forgotten. Some people on the backside of the track are too proud to take her back without a fight -- Alice Piersall, the massive, hell-for-leather trainer of second-rate horses; Reno, a one-time child preacher who now saves his brimstone sermons for the Thoroughbreds; and Billy, a former lover known for his honesty in a roulette wheel business. Others are determined to make her fall -- bottle-blond Louisa Fett, a rider who has hated Kerry since they trained together as teens; Delvecchio, a showboat trainer who treats his barn girls like stock.

Gossip, gambling, lust, and outright robbery erode Kerry's dwindling fortunes. When Eric returns to make his play, risking Sunsquall to clear his debts, Kerry must find out if her final cards -- her body and soul -- are enough to save her in this world where little lasts for long except hope. Keeneland, as Hagy tells it, in a haunting voice "as unique and natural as folk art" "(The Orlando Sentinel), " energizes -- and humanizes -- the carnival chaos of racetrack life.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780743242691
ISBN-10: 0743242696
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 143 x 221 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Simon&Schuster

Notă biografică

Alyson Hagy grew up on a farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. She graduated from Williams College, where she twice won the Benjamin Wainwright Prize for her fiction. She went on to earn an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Michigan. While at Michigan, she was awarded a Hopwood Prize in Short Fiction and a Roy Cowden Fellowship. Hagy's first collection of fiction, Madonna on her Back, was published by Stuart Wright in 1986.