The Drowner
Author: Drewe, Robert
ISBN: 9780141008028
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2001
Pages: 352
Dimensions: 196mm x 130mm x 31mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
In the warm alkaline waters of the public bath a headstrong young engineer accidentally collides with a beautiful actress. From this innocent collision of flesh begins a passion that takes them from the Wiltshire Downs to the most elemental choices of life and death in the Australian desert. Their intense romance is but part of the daring story that unfolds. Mingling history, myth and technology with a modern cinematic and poetic imagination, Robert Drewe presents a fable of European ambitions in an alien landscape, and a magnificently sustained metaphor of water as the life-and-death force.
ISBN: 9780141008028
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2001
Pages: 352
Dimensions: 196mm x 130mm x 31mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
In the warm alkaline waters of the public bath a headstrong young engineer accidentally collides with a beautiful actress. From this innocent collision of flesh begins a passion that takes them from the Wiltshire Downs to the most elemental choices of life and death in the Australian desert. Their intense romance is but part of the daring story that unfolds. Mingling history, myth and technology with a modern cinematic and poetic imagination, Robert Drewe presents a fable of European ambitions in an alien landscape, and a magnificently sustained metaphor of water as the life-and-death force.
