The Sport of Kings (novel)

The Sport of Kings is a 2016 novel by C. E. Morgan. It is a family saga about horse racing set in Kentucky and Ohio.

It won the 2016 Kirkus Prize for Fiction and was a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Reception
In its starred review, Kirkus Reviews called the novel "vaultingly ambitious, thrillingly well-written, charged with moral fervor and rueful compassion."

Publishers Weekly praised the novel's "authentically pungent shed-row atmosphere" but criticized its "series of melodramatic incidents that undermines the care with which Morgan has created these larger-than-life characters."

Awards and nominations

 * Winner, 2016 Kirkus Prize for Fiction
 * Finalist, 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
 * Shortlist, 2017 Women's Prize for Fiction
 * Shortlist, 2017 Rathbones Folio Prize
 * Longlist, 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction
 * Nominee, 2016 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction