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He won various prizes in modern history at oxford before working as a journalist, columnist, and broadcaster in london and new york. Click and collect from your local waterstones or get free uk delivery on orders over. She is gretje reyniers, an orphan forced into prostitution by a series of unlucky events. Apr 15, 2015 michael pye is the author of the drowning room and the pieces from berlin, which were both new york times notable books of the year.
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The drowning room is one womans story, a study in psychology and a historical novel. Click to read more about the drowning room by michael pye. Jan 01, 1996 the author has an interesting voice, and some of the scenes, like the drowning room, are quite striking. Michael pye writes for a livingas a novelist, journalist, historian, and sometimes broadcaster. Pye s dazzling story begins with a clipped, brusque presenttense narration of the life and crimes of martin arkenhout, a 17yearold. The drowning room by michael pye, 9780140141498, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. So in this vivid and haunting novel, michael pye sets out to imagine her whole, back to her wild, indomitable self. His new novel, taking lives, will be published next spring. It promisingly revisits thematic concerns that enlivened pyes admirable 1996 historical novel, the drowning room, yet shoehorns them into a thriller format that gives the author surprisingly. Nothing was known about her until she arrived in america, so he has conjured a life for her.
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