The novel follows the trajectory of Tommy and Maggie’s learning curve. Fortunately Tommy has his girlfriend, Maggie, to keep her eye out for him, and the chief groom and trainer, Medicine Ed, but there are some hard lessons to be learned. Plus there are gangsters who consider Indian Mound Downs racetrack to be their private money press. However, life is rarely so simple and never so when the owner is as unstable as his horses. By entering his unknown horses in races for which they are overqualified, he hopes to bag himself a few winners and some easy money. Once my “ear” was atuned, however, I fair *cough* raced through it.
Taught me an awful lot about the background and pressures, despite the fact that I hadn’t got a clue what was going on in the first 50 pages or so, due to the dialect and slang. OL15492797W Page_number_confidence 93.42 Pages 306 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.14 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210603161619 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 248 Scandate 20210602210417 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780929701837 Tts_version 4.I like it best when fiction takes me to new unfamiliar worlds and Jaimy Gordon’s novel set in and around a small-time racing track in West Virginia did just that. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 12:00:42 Bookplateleaf 0010 Boxid IA40129209 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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