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When Colin Cathcart, an aspiring writer, meets old Johnnie Cross in a London club in 1924, he quickly realizes he has stumbled across something of enormous potential. Cross was the "widow" of the great novelist George Eliot. It had seemed a surprising marriage at the time, in 1880. George Eliot—in private life, Marian Evans—was a celebrated woman of 60 who had recently lost her common-law husband of many years, George Henry Lewes. Cross was twenty years younger than she.
What is the old man now trying to tell Colin? What exactly happened on the honeymoon to Venice? Colin himself may never find out—but we as readers, let in on old Cross's obsessive memories, are drawn into an idyll that becomes a nightmare. The climax, a masterful blending of imagination and historically documented fact, is full of tantalizing details.
In Johnny Cross, Terence de Vere White probes into the hearts of the ill-matched pair in a story of sexual confusion that is painfully human. The author has written a fascinating, original, and extremely moving novel.
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