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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 <i>The Drowning People</i> is not, for we are given the identity of the killer--the <i>who</i>--immediately. The puzzle in this introspective novel is <i>why</i>--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, <i>The Drowning People</i> soars beyond the highest of expectations placed upon it.
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The Drowning People, Richard Mason
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1999
- Einband
- (Hardcover),
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- Titel
- The Drowning People
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Richard Mason
- Verlag
- Michael Joseph
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1999
- Einband
- Hardcover
- Seitenzahl
- 311
- ISBN10
- 0718143655
- ISBN13
- 9780718143657
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Krimi, Gegenwartsliteratur, Geschichten, Britische Literatur, Verrat, Kriminalität
- 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 <i>The Drowning People</i> is not, for we are given the identity of the killer--the <i>who</i>--immediately. The puzzle in this introspective novel is <i>why</i>--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, <i>The Drowning People</i> soars beyond the highest of expectations placed upon it.