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2022

Format:	Book
Author:	Brooks, Geraldine, author.
Title:	Horse / Geraldine Brooks.
Publisher, Date:	[New York] : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2022]
Copyright Date	©2022
Description:	401 pages ; 25 cm
Summary:	"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. Jarrett, an enslaved groom, and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. As the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young artist who has made his name painting 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 19th 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 drawn to one another 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, who became America's greatest stud sire, Horse is a gripping, multi-layered reckoning with the legacy of enslavement and racism in America"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects:	Slavery -- Fiction. Race horses -- Fiction. Painting -- Fiction. African American horsemen and horsewomen -- Fiction. Horses in art -- Fiction. Kentucky -- Fiction.
Genre:	Historical fiction. Domestic fiction. Fiction. Historical fiction. Social problem fiction. Domestic fiction. Social problem fiction. Novels. Novels. Romans.
LCCN:	2021039672
ISBN:	9780399562969 0399562966 * 9780399562983 9780399562969 0399562966
Other Number:	1264176221
System Availability:	29
Current Holds:	0
Control Number:	2398593

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Geraldine Brooks is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel March and the international bestsellers The Secret Chord, Caleb’s Crossing, People of the Book, and Year of Wonders. She has also written the acclaimed nonfiction works Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence. Born and raised in Australia, Brooks lives in Massachusetts.
- (Penguin Putnam)

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