01/28/2024
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Horse: A Novel
$27.95.
Author - Geraldine Brooks
Hardcover - 416 pages
Size - 6.25 x 9.25
“A revelation . . . [the] best horse book I’ve ever read.” —Jane
Smiley, The New York Times Book Review
A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and
the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a
Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit,
obsession, and injustice across American history
Kentucky, 1850. An enslaved groom named Jarret and a bay foal
forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to
record-setting victories across the South. When the nation erupts
in civil war, an itinerant young artist who has made his name on
paintings of the racehorse takes up arms for the Union. On a
perilous night, he reunites with the stallion and his groom, very
far from the glamor of any racetrack.
New York City, 1954. Martha Jackson, a gallery owner celebrated
for taking risks on edgy contemporary painters, becomes obsessed
with a nineteenth-century equestrian oil painting of mysterious
provenance.
Washington, DC, 2019. Jess, a Smithsonian scientist from
Australia, and Theo, a Nigerian-American art historian, find
themselves unexpectedly connected through their shared interest
in the horse—one studying the stallion’s bones for clues to his
power and endurance, the other uncovering the lost history of the
unsung Black horsemen who were critical to his racing success.
Based on the remarkable true story of the record-breaking
thoroughbred Lexington, Horse is a novel of art and science, love
and obsession, and our unfinished reckoning with racism.
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