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'Lord of Misrule'

By JANET MASLIN

Jaimy Gordon's National Book Award-winning novel, set at a low-stakes horse-racing track, is itself a winner: assured, exotic and impossible to categorize.

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misrule
(mĭs-rūl')
n.

1. Disorder or lawless confusion.
2. Inept or unwise rule; misgovernment.

tr.v., -ruled, -rul·ing, -rules.
To rule ineptly, unjustly, or unwisely; misgovern.