The Drowning Room: The Memoirs of Gretye Reyniers - Softcover

Pye, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140141499 ISBN 13: 9780140141498

Publisher: Penguin Books Australia, 1997

Synopsis

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".

About this title

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.

Synopsis:

A blend of history, love story, and memoir, this novel set in the seventeenth century tells the story of Gretje Reyniers, a moneylender, pelt dealer, and town prostitute in New Amsterdam, who rises to fame and fortune.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books Australia
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0140141499
• ISBN 13: 9780140141498
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256