![]() ![]() In this novel, Gordon has created a down-at-the-heels backwater racetrack in West Virginia called Indian Mound Downs. Those of us who had relished her earlier books were not disappointed by the wonderfully quirky Lord of Misrule. She certainly didn’t seem interested in making any concessions toward the kinds of fiction that usually win the big awards. ![]() ![]() Gordon, after all, has been working quietly away for a long time over in Kalamazoo, and before this book had produced some small press classics that have had mostly cult attention. When Jaimy Gordon’s Lord of Misrule won the National Book Award for fiction last year, the prize seemed to startle no one more than the author. ![]()
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