The maze at Windermere ; a novel
Smith, Gregory Blake
The maze at Windermere ; a novel / Gregory Blake Smith. - New York : Viking , 2018 - 339 p. ; 24 cm
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 tapestry, charting a voyage across the ages into the maze of the human heart.
English.
9780735221925
Wager---Fiction
Sagas---Fiction
Historical fiction
PS3569.M5356 / M39 2018
FIC SMI
The maze at Windermere ; a novel / Gregory Blake Smith. - New York : Viking , 2018 - 339 p. ; 24 cm
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 tapestry, charting a voyage across the ages into the maze of the human heart.
English.
9780735221925
Wager---Fiction
Sagas---Fiction
Historical fiction
PS3569.M5356 / M39 2018
FIC SMI
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