C.E. Morgan The Sport of Kings

About The Sport of Kings

C.E. Morgan's The Sport of Kings (2016) is one of the most ambitious American novels of the last decade — a multigenerational story of a Kentucky thoroughbred horse-racing dynasty and the Black man whose life becomes entangled with it, covering more than a century of American history. Formally maximalist, with long sentences, multiple time frames, and Biblical scope, organized around the themes of race, inheritance, and the violence embedded in American institutions.