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    Jun 15, 2022 4 minutes
    EDITED by JULIET RIEDEN

    LITERARY FICTION

    Horse by Geraldine Brooks, Hachette

    Three time zones interweave in Geraldine Brooks’ soulful tour de force, and the thrill is as much in the individual tales and their colourful personalities as it is in watching the strands converge in a denouement that leaves the reader gasping for air.

    Ostensibly Horse is the story of the legendary Lexington, and while the novel is a work of imagination, this exquisite racehorse very much did exist. He was the fastest racer in US equine history and went on to sire champions. He was also, “a horse so handsome that the best equestrian artists vied to paint him” notes Brooks, and all this as Civil War brewed in a deeply-divided nation.

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