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The Drowning Room
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The Drowning Room Paper back - 1997

by Michael Pye

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Set during the terrible winter of 1642, in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, this haunting and evocative novel, based on fact, tells of Gretje Reyniers, a feisty, complex woman who makes her own unconventional way. "Pye captures in earthy detail the muck and mire of both the old and new Amsterdams, and the occasional flicker of gilt as well".--"Washington Post".

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  • Title The Drowning Room
  • Author Michael Pye
  • Binding Paper Back
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - 3.1 PB standard 50%
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books, New York
  • Date March 1997
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 934823
  • ISBN 9780140141498 / 0140141499
  • Weight 0.37 lbs (0.17 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.7 x 5.01 x 0.48 in (19.56 x 12.73 x 1.22 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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  • New York Times, 04/06/1997, Page 32

About the author

Michael Pye writes for a living--as a novelist, journalist, historian, and sometimes broadcaster. He is English by birth, but civilized by study in Italy and a newspaper apprenticeship in Scotland. For 20 years he commuted between New York and Europe as a political and cultural columnist for British newspapers. He now lives with his partner John Holm in a tiny village in the forests of rural Portugal. He has published ten books, and is proud of some of them: The Movie Brats, written with Lynda Myles, which was the first serious study of what the Scorsese generation did to Hollywood; King Over The Water, which exposed the machinations of the Duke of Windsor in the wartime Bahamas; Maximum City, the biography of New York which set out to find the roots and history of the city's magic; The Drowning Room, a novel on the first whore of New York in its wild Dutch days; and, of course, Taking Lives.

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