In the Swim: A Story of Currents and Under-Currents in Gayest New York
1898
In the Swim: A Story of Currents and Under-Currents in Gayest New York
1898
Harold Vreeland arrives in New York City with a powerful frame, a handsome face, and the weight of his father's disreputable legacy pressing down on him. Returning from the West, he carries resentment toward the new social elite who control the city's wealth and power, yet he burns to join their ranks. The contradiction poisons him: he despises what he wants, wants what he despises. As he navigates the sweltering social scene of Manhattan's high society, encounters like the wealthy Elaine Willoughby test his ambitions and expose the lengths he'll go to remake himself. Savage's novel captures a man adrift in a city of currents and undercurrents, where every introduction carries hidden weight and every aspiration risks drowning in old shame. The tension between Vreeland's physical prowess and moral uncertainty gives the book its edge: a study of someone who knows exactly the world he's trying to enter and exactly why he despises himself for wanting in.
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