The Company: Portrait of a Murderer by Edge, Arabella

The Company: Portrait of a Murderer (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780743419185)

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The Company: Portrait of a Murderer by Edge, Arabella

The Company: Portrait of a Murderer

$24.95
The Company: Portrait of a Murderer by Edge, Arabella

The Company: Portrait of a Murderer

$24.95
Format: Paperback
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Based on the 1629 voyage of the Dutch East India Company flagship, Batavia -- which foundered off the coast of western Australia with its cargo of untold riches -- The Company tells the story of passenger Jeronimus Cornelisz, a heretical apothecary so twisted by lust and greed that he turns to mutiny, rape, torture, and murder.
With the ship wrecked, its passengers dying, and its treasure at the bottom of the sea, Cornelisz marshals his mesmerizing charisma to assume command of the survivors. For forty hellish days, Cornelisz incites a reign of terror, leaving his victims with just one wish -- that they had gone down with the ship.
In highly imaginative and exquisitely wrought prose, The Company "suggests that Robinson Crusoe was lucky to be marooned alone" (Publishers Weekly).

Author: Arabella Edge
ISBN-10: 0743419189
ISBN-13: 9780743419185
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Language: English
Published: 07/02/2003
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 8.02h x 4.92w x 1.01d
By Arabella Edge
By Arabella Edge
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Arabella Edge read English literature at the University of Bristol in the UK and moved to Australia in 1992. With her husband, Nick Gaze, she now divides her time between Sydney and Bicheno, on Tasmania's east coast. Her first novel, The Company, won the Best First Book in the 2001 Commonwealth Writers' Prize in the South East Asia and South Pacific Region and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award

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