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"My wife of more than forty-five years shot herself yesterday afternoon. At least that is what the police assume, and I am playing the part of grieving widower with enthusiasm and success... It was I who killed her." Thus begins the much-hyped first novel by 20-year-old Oxford undergraduate Richard Mason. Your typical murder mystery The Drowning People is not, for we are given the identity of the killer--the who --immediately. The puzzle in this introspective novel is why --why did 70-year-old James Farrell murder his aristocratic wife, Sarah? The answer lies nearly 50 years into the past as the book ranges from Prague to London, from France to a remote castle in Cornwall. At its core is an intoxicating love affair between 22-year-old James, a talented violinist and hopeless romantic, and Ella Harewood, an American heiress to an English title, trapped by her heritage and destiny. A beautifully written exploration of self-absorbed first love and its tragic consequences, The Drowning People soars beyond the highest of expectations placed upon it.
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The Drowning People, Richard Podaný
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2000
- Einband
- (Paperback)
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- Titel
- The Drowning People
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Richard Podaný
- Verlag
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2000
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 384
- ISBN10
- 014029211X
- ISBN13
- 9780140292114
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Krimi & Thriller, Romantik, Liebe, Thriller, Familie, Gegenwartsliteratur, Spannung, Zeitgenössische Liebesromane, Morde, Britische Literatur, Gesellschaft, England, Englische Literatur, Ehe, Prag, Verrat, Zukunft, Intrigen, Selbstmord, Gegenwart, Aristokratie, Adel, Lügen, Eifersucht, Hass, Schmerz, Verzweiflung, 90er Jahre des 20. Jahrhunderts
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 1999
- Originaltitel
- The Drowning People
- Bewertung
- 3,65 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- "My wife of more than forty-five years shot herself yesterday afternoon. At least that is what the police assume, and I am playing the part of grieving widower with enthusiasm and success... It was I who killed her." Thus begins the much-hyped first novel by 20-year-old Oxford undergraduate Richard Mason. Your typical murder mystery The Drowning People is not, for we are given the identity of the killer--the who --immediately. The puzzle in this introspective novel is why --why did 70-year-old James Farrell murder his aristocratic wife, Sarah? The answer lies nearly 50 years into the past as the book ranges from Prague to London, from France to a remote castle in Cornwall. At its core is an intoxicating love affair between 22-year-old James, a talented violinist and hopeless romantic, and Ella Harewood, an American heiress to an English title, trapped by her heritage and destiny. A beautifully written exploration of self-absorbed first love and its tragic consequences, The Drowning People soars beyond the highest of expectations placed upon it.