A bit of a need to read something masculine and classic (no connection meant) after the above.
Leaves thinks highly of this, and, having just re-read the few pages in ‘The Great Tradition’ that cover it, he read it with rather more serious attention than I did.
Heist, the hero, is an odd and isolated man, who falls rather by chance into human relationships, which he doesn’t really understand or involve himself in. Chance then precipitates a series of events in which he is pursued, on quite false premises, by some gold-digging scoundrels, and his adopted partner sacrifices herself to save him. This, at the end, is her Victory.
All the principal protagonists are dead in a somewhat melodramatic ending, narrated by an onlooker.
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