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The Maze at Windermere

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The Maze at Windermere

When a drunken party guest challenges him to a late-night tennis match, Sandy Allison finds himself unexpectedly entangled in the monied world of Newport, Rhode Island. A former touring pro a little down on his luck, Sandy has nothing to stake against the vintage motorcycle his opponent wagers. But then Alice DuPont --- the young heiress to a Newport mansion called Windermere --- offers up her diamond necklace.
 
With this reckless wager begins a dazzling narrative odyssey that braids together four centuries of aspiration and adversity in this renowned seaside society capital. A witty and urbane bachelor of the Gilded Age embarks on a high-risk scheme to marry into a fortune; a young Henry James, soon to make his mark on the world, 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.
 
Gregory Blake Smith weaves these intersecting worlds into a rich, brilliant tapestry. A deftly layered novel of love, ambition and duplicity, THE MAZE AT WINDERMERE charts a voyage across the ages into the maze of the human heart.

The Maze at Windermere
by Gregory Blake Smith

  • Publication Date: January 22, 2019
  • Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction
  • Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books
  • ISBN-10: 0735221936
  • ISBN-13: 9780735221932