The Drowning Room - Softcover

Pye, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140141227 ISBN 13: 9780140141221

Publisher: Penguin Books / Granta, 1996

Synopsis

Gretye Reyniers was a Dutch settler in 17th century America, but nothing is known about her life before she moved to the new world. This book creates a past for her, before she moved to New Amsterdam and became a prostitute.

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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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Books / Granta
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140141227
• ISBN 13: 9780140141221
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256