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11 sie 2022 · Five talented actors honor Geraldine Brooks’s fine new historical novel, Horse, with unique and complementary performances. Host Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Robin Whitten discuss how each narrator establishes a clear style for their character and their story’s era.
All 126 characters in Horse are listed by chapter with character descriptions included.
Based on the remarkable true story of the record-breaking thoroughbred, Lexington, who became America’s greatest stud sire, Horse is a gripping, multi-layered reckoning with the legacy of enslavement and racism in America.
11 cze 2022 · SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Lexington was one of the most extraordinary athletes of the 19th century. He happened to be a racehorse. The story of his career is the skeleton, if you please, in which...
14 wrz 2022 · Elizabeth Gabler, Erin Siminoff and Aislinn Dunster are overseeing the project for the studio. Published by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House, Horse became an instant...
2 sie 2022 · Books. Geraldine Brooks Probes Racing—and Race—in Her New Historical Novel, Horse. The Pulitzer Prize winner explores the unwritten true tale of America’s most famous racehorse—and uses that story to show how far we need to go in confronting systemic racism. By Eleni Gage Updated: Aug 02, 2022 5:19 PM EDT. Save Article. Author photo: Randi Baird.
7 cze 2022 · The title of Geraldine Brooks’s new novel, “Horse,” alludes to Lexington: the real and extraordinary late-19th-century Kentucky bay stallion who drives its plot.
