Sara Hanks is an architecture critic who was forced to cover what she calls a looming disaster but actually it is a simple horse race. However, for her, it is a reminder of her painful past. Louis Clark the king of the horse racing he earned the gold medal the past couple of years. On the other hand, he is the archite...
The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution, and many unflattering social parallels with life in L...