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Gregory Blake Smith

    Gregory Blake Smith crea narrazioni che approfondiscono la psiche umana e le complessità delle relazioni. La sua prosa è celebrata per la sua raffinatezza stilistica e profondità atmosferica, immergendo i lettori in ambientazioni meticolosamente dettagliate e nella vita interiore dei suoi personaggi. Smith esplora questioni esistenziali, dilemmi morali e la ricerca di significato in un mondo caotico. Le sue storie coinvolgono emotivamente i lettori, spingendoli a riflettere sulle proprie scelte di vita e sui propri destini.

    Doolhof van Windermere
    The Maze at Windermere
    • The Maze at Windermere

      • 339pagine
      • 12 ore di lettura

      "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"--

      The Maze at Windermere
    • Doolhof van Windermere

      • 461pagine
      • 17 ore di lettura

      Wanneer Sandy Alison als ex-proftennisser les gaat geven aan de jetset van Newport, raakt hij met de vrouwen van het landhuis Windermere verstrikt in een web van emotionele chantage, lust en intrige. Al vier eeuwen lang gaan aspiratie en tegenslag van de high society op deze plek hand in hand. Van de jonge schrijver Henry James in de negentiende eeuw, die moet kiezen tussen liefde en kunstenaarschap, tot de verweesde jonge Prudence in de zeventiende eeuw, die worstelt met de vraag hoe ze zichzelf en haar slavin een beter, vrijer leven kan geven. Op ingenieuze wijze laat Gregory Blake Smith zien hoezeer de mens door de eeuwen heen door liefde, verlangen, ambitie en dubbelhartigheid gedreven én verblind wordt.

      Doolhof van Windermere