Richard Mason SIGNED The Drowning People 1999 Hardcover First Edition 1st DJ
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Richard Mason, The Drowning People, 1999, Warner Books. SIGNED (by the author in black ink with Signature only on the title page) Hardcover, First Edition/First Printing. VG+, in like dust jacket. Review copy with slip tipped in. Please check my other auctions for more great books by this author.It is a cold afternoon in winter. An old man sits in a room high above the sea, watching the sun set. It is twenty-four hours since the death of his wife at Seton Castle, the home they had shared for more than forty years. And as it grows dark, he tries to make sense of a life only recently understood; and to explain how he, by no means a violent man, has come to kill in cold blood... From Publishers Weekly The startling opening sentence (My wife of more than 45 years shot herself yesterday afternoon) and the compelling voice of narrator James Farrell draw the reader into the emotional vortex of this accomplished debut novel by a 20-year-old British writer. We learn immediately that his long marriage to Sarah Harcourt was not an affair of the heart for James. His love for Sarahs insecure, fragile cousin, Emma, is the substance of the flashback narrative, which deftly evokes the obsessive passion of first love, meanwhile alluding heavily to sin and guilt. When James meets Ella Harcourt he is about to graduate from Oxford, and to begin serious
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