5/20/2023 0 Comments The sport of kings by ce morgan![]() It’s there that his fate will become forever entwined with the Forge’s, as Henry, Henrietta and Allmon, each stake their future in Hellsmouth, a filly bred from champions that could win it all. Years later, Allmon arrives at the Forge farm determined to remake his own story. In a neighboring town, Allmon Shaughnessy, an African American boy, comes of age in a world seeped in discrimination and violence. With his daughter by his side, Henry sets out to breed and race the fastest horse in history. The Forge family is Kentucky royalty: their land and wealth has been handed down for generations and Henrietta, the daughter of Henry Forge, stands to inherit it all. ![]() Morgan exposes the soft and hardened edges of humanity with crushing clarity. ![]() Weaving together different centuries and narratives, C.E. It’s graceful, provocative and at the right stretches, heart-pounding. An Amazon Best Book of May 2016: The Sport of Kings is American and epic, a novel of lineage and legacy, race horses and racism, power and poverty. ![]()
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