Horse
A Novel
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Geraldine Brooks
About this listen
“Brooks’ chronological and cross-disciplinary leaps are thrilling.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Horse isn’t just an animal story—it’s a moving narrative about race and art.” —TIME
“A thrilling story about humanity in all its ugliness and beauty . . . 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 Daily
Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award · Finalist for the Chautauqua Prize · A Massachusetts Book Award Honor Book
A 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
Kentucky, 1850. 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. 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. On a perilous night, he reunites with the stallion and his groom, very far from the glamor of any racetrack.
New York City, 1954. 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.
Washington, DC, 2019. Jess, a Smithsonian scientist from Australia, and Theo, a Nigerian-American art historian, find themselves unexpectedly connected through their shared interest in the horse—one studying the stallion’s bones for clues to his power and endurance, the other uncovering the lost history of the unsung Black horsemen who were critical to his racing success.
Based on the remarkable true story of the record-breaking thoroughbred Lexington, Horse is a novel of art and science, love and obsession, and our unfinished reckoning with racism.
What the critics say
“Brooks’ chronological and cross-disciplinary leaps are thrilling . . . [Horse] is really a book about the power and pain of words . . . Lexington is ennobled by art and science, and roars back from obscurity to achieve the high status of metaphor.”—The New York Times Book Review
“[A] sweeping tale . . . fluid, masterful storytelling . . . [Brooks] writes about our present in such a way that the tangled roots of history, just beneath the story, are both subtle and undeniable . . . Horse is a reminder of the simple, primal power an author can summon by creating characters readers care about and telling a story about them—the same power that so terrifies the people so desperately trying to get Toni Morrison banned from their children’s reading lists.”—Maggie Shipstead, The Washington Post
“In her thrilling new novel Horse, Geraldine Brooks moves back and forth between the 19th century and the near present with the same practiced ease she displayed in her 2008 epic People of the Book . . . Brooks [has an] almost clairvoyant ability to conjure up the textures of the past and of each character’s inner life . . . Her felicitous, economical style and flawless pacing carries us briskly yet unhurriedly along. And the novel’s alternating narratives, by suspending time, also intensify suspense.”—Wall Street Journal
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- ellen boyce
- 2024-05-09
Performance great
The story plot was not so great. Very disappointing end. Would have been good to hear a positive end to all that hard work.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2023-01-04
Very good , not great
Overall I enjoyed the story which jumps from one century to the other seamlessly but there are a few unexplained loose ends with the details. Wasn’t so keen on the main narrator but other performances were solid.
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- Jacqui Lepp
- 2024-03-01
Omg
As I started reading I made an early decision this book would be okay…. Wrong, this book was amazing! Loved all the characters and this endearing and sobering story from start to finish. Wonderfully written and thought out!
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- Barbara Choo
- 2023-01-08
Horse by Geraldine Brooks
This was a great book, and very well researched. I learned much about horses and racing as well as slavery during that time period in America.
I liked having several people do the reading.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2023-11-01
Excellent story
Excellence in combining two story lines from different times. Might make a nice tv series
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- Kathy Murphy
- 2023-05-14
Fantastic
Beautifully written, well narrated, and my favorite read in 2023... fantastic story all around and especially for any horse enthusiasts
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- Dominique Loyer
- 2024-08-05
Épique
L'amour, les soins et les relations des hommes et des chevaux.
Les faits historiques sont magnifiques.
L'intérêt soutenu par le saut des périodes.
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- Katie
- 2022-12-07
Wonderful story
And amazing narration. A true gut punch at the climax. I will follow this reading up with Geraldine brooks other novels. I loved it!
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- Dineen Holmes
- 2023-05-28
Fabulous read
This was a great book start to finish. I couldn’t put it down and would recommend
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- Amazon Customer
- 2024-08-22
Excellent audio book!
Very well written and the audio version is well done! It takes a few chapters to really get into it, but one you're hooked, it's almost addictive !! The narrators are excellent!
Listened to this audio book while traveling throughout the summer. Totally enjoyed this and am looking forward to listening to other books by Geraldine Brooks!
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