Those Who Walk Away
A Virago Modern Classic
Published on 6. November 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-0-349-00486-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
'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.
Reviews / Votes
Bears Highsmith's unique, unsurpassed mixture of unsettling psychological insights, moods of tension and malice, and an ending of brilliant ambiguity * The Times * Highsmith is a damn fine writer * Guardian * Highsmith is a giant of the genre. The original, the best, the gloriously twisted Queen of Suspense -- Mark Billingham No one has created psychological suspense more densely and deliciously satisfying * Vogue * [Highsmith is] the doyenne of upmarket suspense writing * Daily Telegraph * 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, -- Andrew Martin * The Week * 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 -- Graham Greene One of the greatest modernist writers -- Gore Vidal The setting is Venice, the characterisation brilliant, the style spare and superb * Daily Mail * Illuminating - and always compelling * New York Times * Highsmith keeps moving, darting in and out of our field of vision, making afterimages that will tremble - but stay - in our minds * New Yorker *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Little, Brown Book Group
Dimensions
Height: 195 mm
Width: 126 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
215 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-349-00486-0 (9780349004860)
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11/2014
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Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and moved to New York when she was six. In her senior year, she edited the college magazine, having decided at the age of sixteen to become a writer. Her first novel, Strangers on a Train (1950), was made into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. The Talented Mr Ripley (1955), introduced the fascinating anti-hero Tom Ripley, and was made into an Oscar-winning film in 1999 by Anthony Minghella. Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland, in February 1995. Her last novel, Small g: A Summer Idyll, was published posthumously, the same year.