{"product_id":"keeneland-paperback","title":"Keeneland - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlyson Hagy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom award-winning writer Alyson Hagy comes a novel set at Kentucky's Keeneland racetrack, where the horses run for glory and people stake love and money -- all to win at the sport of kings.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHagy, a compelling storyteller who has the \"same way with language as her characters have with animals\" \"(\u003ci\u003eSan Jose Mercury News\u003c\/i\u003e), \" introduces Kerry Connelly, a skilled exercise rider who hasn't yet learned that liking a horse doesn't make it faster but loving one means genuine risk.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlyson Hagy grew up on a farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. She graduated from Williams College, where she twice won the Benjamin Wainwright Prize for her fiction. She went on to earn an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Michigan. While at Michigan, she was awarded a Hopwood Prize in Short Fiction and a Roy Cowden Fellowship. Hagy's first collection of fiction, \u003ci\u003eMadonna on her Back, \u003c\/i\u003ewas published by Stuart Wright in 1986.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.68 x 8.7 x 5.62 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 06, 2000\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42131964625031,"sku":"9780743242691","price":21.83,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/00658f17de5e949d77a043991e797e0f.webp?v=1732622698","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/keeneland-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}