Word: minefield
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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...writing his father's biography and comes to probe the old antagonism. Curtal died, his son tells Stanhope, by laughing himself into a fatal hemorrhage while mimicking Stanhope's mandarin manner. The son's brutal questions lead Stanhope back into a past as dangerous as a minefield, where every step triggers explosive insights and revelations. By the final pages. Stanhope has progressed from prig to pitiful human. As his own life ebbs, he slowly realizes that Curtal's death had lost him not a hated enemy but a warm friend...