Geraldine Brooks is an Australian-born author and journalist. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in fiction in 2006 for her novel March. She is also the author of the nonfiction works Nine Parts of Desire, Foreign Correspondence and The Idea of Home.
Geraldine Brooks
Geraldine Brooks
Horse
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Geraldine Brooks
On the History of Horse Racing in America
Portrait of Lexington ca. 1857, by Thomas J. Scott
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. David K. Anderson, Martha Jackson Memorial Collection
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Geraldine Brooks
On Her Love of Horses
Skeleton of Race Horse Lexington in Castle Yard
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7074, Image No. SIA2015-004061
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On Lexington’s Extraordinary Story
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Geraldine Brooks
Reads Horse
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Geraldine Brooks
On the Character of Jarret
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Geraldine Brooks
On Who Has the Right to Tell a Story
Geraldine Brooks
Horse
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Horse
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 glamour of any racetrack.
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, who became America’s greatest stud sire, Horse is an original, gripping, multi-layered reckoning with the legacy of enslavement and racism in America.
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