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Martha Peake: a Novel of the Revolution is a 2000 novel by the British author Patrick McGrath. It tells the story of the grotesquely crippled Harry Peake and his daughter Martha, their involvement with the mysterious anatomist Lord Drogo, the tragic events that separate them, and the subsequent flight of Martha to America at the ...
1 de ene. de 2001 · Martha Peake: A Novel of the Revolution. Patrick McGrath. 3.32. 734 ratings87 reviews. A hypnotic tale of psychological suspense and haunting beauty. Set among the teeming streets and desolate wharves of Hogarth's London, then shifting to the powder-keg colony of Massachusetts Bay.
10 de oct. de 2000 · Martha Peake: A Novel of the Revolution. Hardcover – October 10, 2000. Master storyteller Patrick McGrath--author of the critically acclaimed novel Asylum and a finalist for England's prestigious Whitbread Prize for fiction--once again spins a hypnotic tale of psychological suspense and haunting beauty.
14 de may. de 2002 · When an unspeakable calamity befalls her, Martha has no choice but to flee alone to America, which is on the brink of revolution. But she can't forget her father, who was alive when she fled, and the choices she makes as a result will make her a symbol of the revolution itself.
Or that he’s about to become psychologically enmeshed in the riveting life of Harry’s daughter, Martha, who flees her father for colonial America where she becomes a heroic figure in the...
Martha Peake is the poignant, often disturbing tale of a child fighting free of a father's twisted love, and of the colonists' struggle to free...
1 de may. de 2002 · Ambrose is summoned to his uncle's sprawling mansion where William starts to relate the tale of Harry Peake, the doomed smuggler and poet, and his loyal daughter Martha, a saga which took place only decades before.
