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100 1 _aSmith, Gregory Blake
245 1 4 _aThe maze at Windermere ;
_ba novel
_c/ Gregory Blake Smith.
260 _aNew York
_b: Viking
_c, 2018
300 _a339 p.
_c; 24 cm
520 _aA 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.
546 _aEnglish.
650 4 _aWager
_x-Fiction
650 4 _aSagas
_x-Fiction
655 4 _aHistorical fiction
942 _cMO
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