![]() She fills your head with all that exists in hers, and that is quite a lot - she has a special and almost Darwinian interest in consanguinity, in the barbed things that are passed on in the blood of people and of horses, like curses, from generation to generation. ![]() She’s an interior writer, with deep verbal and intellectual resources. Morgan is not especially interested in surfaces, or in conventional plot migrations. You might title that mini-series “Lexington!” Michael Landon would play a dynastic horse breeder, tanked up on destiny, with a whip in one hand and a mint julep in the other.īut Ms. On its surface, “The Sport of Kings” has enough incident (arson, incest, a lynching, miscegenation, murder) to sustain a 1980s-era television mini-series. ![]() It’s a mud-flecked epic, replete with fertile symbolism, that hurtles through generations of Kentucky history. Morgan’s ravishing and ambitious new horse-world novel, “The Sport of Kings,” taps into that nature and need. ![]() Its thesis statement, which I have located with the aid of bloodhounds, is probably this: “What the horse supplies to man is something deep and profound in his emotional nature and need.”Ĭ. The article that resulted didn’t have much in common with sports journalism. In 1955, Sports Illustrated sent William Faulkner to cover the Kentucky Derby. ![]()
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