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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 Mason
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- 1999
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- Titul
- The Drowning People
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autori
- Richard Mason
- Vydavateľ
- Michael Joseph
- Rok vydania
- 1999
- Väzba
- pevná
- Počet strán
- 311
- ISBN10
- 0718143655
- ISBN13
- 9780718143657
- Série
- Štítky
- Láska, Rodina, Súčasná literatúra, Napätie, Vraždy, Britská literatúra, Spoločnosť, Anglicko, Anglická literatúra, Manželstvo, Praha, Zrada, Budúcnosť, Intrigy, Samovražda, Súčasnosť, Aristokracia, šľachta, Klamstvá, Žiarlivosť, Nenávisť, Bolest, Zúfalstvo, 90. roky 20. storočia
- Prvé vydanie
- 1999
- Pôvodný názov
- The Drowning People
- Hodnotenie
- 3,65 z 5
- Anotácia
- "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.