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GAINED 2010 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTIONAt the rock bottom end-of the activity of kings rests the callous and often chaotic world of inexpensive horse-racing, where trainers and jockeys, grooms and hotwalkers, loan-sharks and boasts all find it difficult to consider an advantage, or show their-luck, or simply endure. Equivalent components Nathanael West, Damon Runyon and Eudora Welty, Lord of Misrule uses five figures -- unhappy and damaged dreamers in the National feed -- via a year and four contests at Indian Mound Downs, down-river from Wheeling, West Virginia. Horseman Tommy Hansel includes a plan to save his faltering steady: in inexpensive declaring events at long odds He'll deliver four unfamiliar but prepared mounts to Indian Pile Downs, operate them, and then escape quickly before anybody sees. The thing is, only at that run-down riverfront half-mile racetrack in the Northern Panhandle, everybody updates--experienced lick Medication Impotence, Kidstuff the blacksmith, aged woman "gyp" Deucey Gifford, booth superintendent Luggage Smithers, ultimately also the rulled-off "racetrack lender" Two-Twi and the threatening top coach, Joe Dale Bigg.