The maze at Windermere /
A richly layered novel of love, ambition and duplicity, set against the storied seascape of Newport, Rhode Island. A reckless wager between a tennis pro with a fading career and a drunken party guest, the stakes are an antique motorcycle and an heiress's diamond necklace, launches a narrative o...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Viking,
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| Summary: | A richly layered novel of love, ambition and duplicity, set against the storied seascape of Newport, Rhode Island. A reckless wager between a tennis pro with a fading career and a drunken party guest, the stakes are an antique motorcycle and an heiress's diamond necklace, launches a narrative odyssey that braids together three centuries of aspiration and adversity. A witty and urbane bachelor of the Gilded Age embarks on a high-risk scheme to marry into a fortune, a young writer soon to make his mark turns himself to his craft with harrowing social consequences, an aristocratic British officer during the American Revolution carries on a courtship that leads to murder and, in Newport's earliest days, a tragically orphaned Quaker girl imagines a way forward for herself and the slave girl she has inherited. In The Maze at Windermere Gregory Blake Smith weaves these intersecting worlds into a brilliant tapestry, charting a voyage across the ages into the maze of the human heart. |
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| Physical Description: | 339 pages ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780735221925 0735221928 9780735221932 0735221936 |