Horse by Brooks, Geraldine

Horse

"Brooks' chronological and cross-disciplinary leaps are thrilling." --The New York Times Book Review "Horse isn't just an...
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Author: Geraldine Brooks
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Language: English
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Horse by Brooks, Geraldine

Horse

CHF 39.17

Horse

CHF 39.17
Author: Geraldine Brooks
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
"Brooks' chronological and cross-disciplinary leaps are thrilling." --The New York Times Book Review

"Horse isn't just an animal story--it's a moving narrative about race and art." --TIME

"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.

Author: Geraldine Brooks
Publisher: Viking
Published: 06/14/2022
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9780399562969


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 01/01/2022 pg. 6
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2022
Publishers Weekly 04/04/2022
Library Journal 04/01/2022 pg. 77
Booklist 04/15/2022 pg. 21
Publishers Weekly 04/11/2022 pg. 45
Shelf Awareness 06/17/2022

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