Martha Jackson, a gallery owner celebrated for taking risks on edgy contemporary painters, becomes obsessed with a nineteenth-century equestrian oil painting of mysterious provenance.
On a perilous night, he reunites with the stallion and his groom, very far from the glamor of any racetrack. When the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young artist who has made his name on paintings of the racehorse takes up arms for the Union. An enslaved groom named Jarret and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. the evocative voices create a story so powerful, reading it feels like watching a neck-and-neck horse race, galloping to its conclusion-you just can’t look away.” - Oprah DailyĪ discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history “ A thrilling story about humanity in all its ugliness and beauty. “ Horse isn’t just an animal story-it’s a moving narrative about race and art.” - TIME “Brooks’ chronological and cross-disciplinary leaps are thrilling.” - The New York Times Book Review
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