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In 1876 Heinrich Schliemann stunned the world with his announcement that he had discovered the tomb of Agamemnon in Mycenae, Greece. My grandfather, a refugee from Cyprus worked for Schliemann. Among the dignitaries from all countries that flocked to the site to examine Schliemann's discovery, my grandfather alone refuted Schliemann's claim. The locals in the village were incensed, ready to lynch my grandfather, who was forced to flee the country. In America my grandfather engaged in a number of successful small businesses, always dreaming of returning to Cyprus. It never happened. Ultimately, he wound up in Indiana with my father, who was the town physician. In Indiana my grandfather became a buffer between myself, a dark skinned anomaly in a community of bullying, blond Germanic rednecks. Without my grandfather to lead me to and from school each day, I would not have made it through kindergarten. This security ended with the death of my grandfather. Fate, however, intervened with the arrival in town of the Twitam family and a Cyprus connection that would lead me back to my grandfather's homeland and the true story of the man behind the golden mask.
Rudi Jenkins is a young man of Native American descent. At the bedside of his dying father in a local hospice, he realizes he is looking at a stranger and asks himself, "Who is this man?" Through Smiley Jenkins final words and the familys coming to terms with his life and demise, a history of the trials and tribulations of the Potassett tribe - a Connecticut branch of the Pequots - unfolds from the genocide at Mystic in colonial times to the present world of casino gambling. Smileys wife Martha, his two sisters, Uncle Bumps and Iris, an engaging young anthropologist from Columbia University, along with a host of local characters all contribute to unraveling the mystery of Blood Creek. Potassett is a saga of greed, love, hate and the role of culture and environment in fulfilling human needs.
A widower now remarried, Charles Young retires from a long teaching career in Greece and returns home to Connecticut with his wife, Mary. After they move into his old family homestead, they discover a box of letters in the attic. One letter at a time, an early life is revealed.
Out-and-out young gentlemen may be divided into two classes – those who have something to do, and those who have nothing." In Sketches of Young Gentlemen Charles Dickens presents this list of types of men that young ladies might encounter in society; a sort of Buzzfeed article of the 19th century. How’s about The Censorious Young Gentlemen, who expresses all opinions "with a dubious sneer, accompanied with a half smile"? No? Maybe The Poetical Young Gentleman, who "is lounging on a sofa with his eyes fixed upon the ceiling" then? or maybe The Domestic Young Gentleman, "who lives at home with his mother"? Dickens isn’t too impressed with these bachelors and doesn’t think the ladies should be either. Sketches of Young Gentlemen is an excellent and quick read, just as amusing as it is accurate. Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English author, social critic, and philanthropist. Much of his writing first appeared in small instalments in magazines and was widely popular. Among his most famous novels are Oliver Twist (1839), David Copperfield (1850), and Great Expectations (1861).
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