The dialect didn't really give me trouble-although I do find it a bit inconsistent at times. I noticed several blog reviews which mentioned the dialect and how difficult it was to get into the book because of it. Part of Hansel's luck depends on his girlfriend, Maggie-but even he doesn't foresee the way her luck will run. However, in a world that also includes loan sharks, small-time gangsters, and savvy former trainers, things don't always go as planned. His idea is to bring four unknown horses into Indian Mound Downs, have them run in the cheap claiming races at long odds, cash his bets, and "get out fast" before anyone notices what he's done. He has a plan to change his luck and get him and his horses back into racing as a money-maker. Into this world comes horseman Tommy Hansel. Tracks like this are where racing folk go when they have nowhere else to go. Gordon's National Book Award winner is all about the world of the cheap race, down-on-their-luck trainers, jockeys and owners, and the horses that are literally on their last legs. In the judgment of Medicine Ed, walking a horse himself on the shedrow of Barn Z, the going-nowhere contraption must be the lost soul of this cheap racetrack where he been ended up at." That hot-walking machine provides the metaphor for the cheap claiming race track at the rock-bottom end of the sport of kings. Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon opens with "Inside the back gate of Indian Mound Downs, a hot-walking machine creaked round and round.
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