Road from the Monument

Storm Jameson's fine novel tells the story of two men, their beginnings, ambitions, wives, failures, successes.Gregory Mott is seen at first solely through the eyes of other people: the old man who taught him when he was a child; his aristocratic wife; his oldest friend, Lambert Corry; and Harriet Ellis, at one time his mistress and still his close friend. He is a religious man, a writer whose Ang...