{"product_id":"the-drowning-room-isbn-9780140141498","title":"The Drowning Room","description":"\u003cb\u003eMichael Pye \u003c\/b\u003ewrites 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: \u003ci\u003eThe Movie Brats\u003c\/i\u003e, written with Lynda Myles, which was the first serious study of what the Scorsese generation did to Hollywood; \u003ci\u003eKing Over The Water\u003c\/i\u003e, which exposed the machinations of the Duke of Windsor in the wartime Bahamas; \u003ci\u003eMaximum City\u003c\/i\u003e, the biography of New York which set out to find the roots and history of the city's magic; \u003ci\u003eThe Drowning Room\u003c\/i\u003e, a novel on the first whore of New York in its wild Dutch days; and, of course, \u003ci\u003eTaking Lives.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303520030949,"sku":"NP9780140141498","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140141498.jpg?v=1767739089","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-drowning-room-isbn-9780140141498","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}