Recommended by Michael Connelly in an interview and then mentioned in Resurrection Walk. Good start--about 10% done. Two gamers in Boston, Sam at Harvard and Sadie at MIT. Past history when Sadie's sister was in Children's Hospital in LA with leukemia and Sam was in same hospital with broken bones in foot after car accident. Sam non-communicative, but talks to Sadie. She then "uses" him as her community service for her Bat Mitzvah requirement, though she really does see him as a friend.
February 1895 (Alice died in 1892) Money problems, jealousy of Wilde; time spent with Lord Wolseley1; off to Ireland to lick his wounds; Irish unrest--Irish landlords boycott all social events; much time spent with manservant Hammond (homosexual attraction again); fancy dress ball, appalling to James, who is only happy in company of Hammond, though Hammond remains a servant and no more; little girl alone on the grounds--inspiration for Turn of the Screw?; conflict with Webster who alludes to Wilde's successful play and HJ's failure; Wolseley was an Anglo-Irish officer in the British Army . He became one of the most influential and admired British generals after a series of successes in Canada, West Africa, and Egypt, followed by a central role in modernizing the British Army in promoting efficiency. He served in Burma, the Crimean War , the Indian Mutiny , China, Canada and widely throughout Africa—including his Ashanti campaign (18...
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