Lord of Misrule

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Fiction

Burned-out horses and grubbing grooms

LORD OF MISRULE
By Jaimy Gordon
296 pp. McPherson

Reviewed by Gilion Dumas

Lord of Misrule is Jaimy Gordon's back-of-the-house view of small track horse racing. It is not a pretty view - everything is crooked, crippled, rusty, or staved in at Indian Mound Downs. The horses are burned out; the grooms, trainers, and jockeys are