The men-and the side characters as well, John’s other servants, Michael’s family and the transvestite bathhouse owner that rescued him as a young boy-are real people, with faults and foibles sometimes they’re admirable, and sometimes they’re irritating. But as time goes on, Michael realizes the extent of John’s injuries, and John realizes that Michael might hold the key to his survival.īonds of Earth is the kind of book that sucks you into a time far removed from the present, and makes you feel as if you’re living there, right beside the characters. John is too wrapped up in his own crippling pain and misery to even acknowledge Michael, while the young gardener only sees that John’s selfishness makes his servants’ lives difficult. When Michael is blackmailed into taking a job as a gardener on the estate, their paths cross. Once a promising young medical student, Michael now does massages-and more-in a Bowery bathhouse, while John lives the life of a recluse in his family’s country mansion. Scion of Hudson Valley aristocrats John Seward and the son of poor Irish immigrants Michael McCready have only one thing in common-they have both been broken by the First World War, John in body, Michael in spirit.
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