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Those Who Walk Away de Patricia Highsmith

Those Who Walk Away

Autor Patricia Highsmith
en Limba Engleză Paperback
Ray Garrett, a wealthy young American living in Europe, is grieving over the death of his wife, Peggy. Ray is at a loss for why she would take her own life, but Peggy's father, Ed Coleman, a painter, has no such uncertainty--he blames Ray completely. Late one night in Rome, Coleman shoots Ray at point-blank range. He thinks he's had his revenge, but Ray survives and follows Coleman and his wealthy girlfriend to Venice.

In Venice, it happens again: Coleman attacks his loathed son-in-law, dumping him into the cold waters of the Laguna. Ray survives thanks to the help of a boatman, and this time he goes into hiding, living in a privately rented room under a fake name. So begins an eerie game of cat and mouse. Coleman wants vengeance, Ray wants a clear conscience, and the police want to solve the mystery of what happened to the missing American.

As Ray and Coleman stalk each other through the narrow streets and canals, the hotels and bars of the beguiling city, Those Who Walk Away simmers with violence and unease. Originally published in 1967, this is vintage Highsmith.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780802126924
ISBN-10: 0802126928
Pagini: 264
Greutate: 0.27 kg

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BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY, CAROL AND STRANGERS ON A TRAIN

'Highsmith is a damn fine writer' GUARDIAN

'No one has created psychological suspense more densely and deliciously satisfying' VOGUE

'The setting is Venice, the characterisation brilliant, the style spare and superb' DAILY MAIL

The honeymoon is over; the bride dead by her own hand. Ray Garrett, the grieving husband, convinces the police in Rome of his innocence, but not his father-in-law, Ed Coleman, who shoots him at point-blank range and leaves him for dead. Ray survives and follows Coleman to Venice, where the two fall into an eerie game of cat-and-mouse - Coleman obsessed with vengeance and Ray determined to save his reputation, and himself.

Those Who Walk Away simmers with violence and unease. As they switch between the roles of hunter and hunted, this tense psychological novel races towards a thrilling climax.

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Bears Highsmith's unique, unsurpassed mixture of unsettling psychological insights, moods of tension and malice, and an ending of brilliant ambiguity
Highsmith is a damn fine writer
Highsmith is a giant of the genre. The original, the best, the gloriously twisted Queen of Suspense
No one has created psychological suspense more densely and deliciously satisfying
[Highsmith is] the doyenne of upmarket suspense writing
A strange but compelling psychological novel, in which one man repeatedly tries to murder another while both are having what seems a rather a nice holiday in Venice. It demonstrates all of Highsmith's best qualities: atmosphere,
A writer who has created a world of her own - a world claustrophobic and irrational which we enter each time with a sense of personal danger . . . Highsmith is the poet of apprehension
One of the greatest modernist writers
The setting is Venice, the characterisation brilliant, the style spare and superb
Illuminating - and always compelling
Highsmith keeps moving, darting in and out of our field of vision, making afterimages that will tremble - but stay - in our minds