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Boston, Massachusetts, USA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000. BH6 - A tight, clean, sound copy in very good condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with very minor overall shelf wear. Two couples have gone on a walking tour in Wales but a fatal accident results. The book centers on the question of what happened both in an ensuing negligence trial and also within the mind of the narrator, the daughter of one of the couples. This is a New York Times Notable Book. By the author of "Labrador," "The Girl Who Trod on a Leaf," and "Hell." 264p.. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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The Walking Tour Paperback - 2000
by Kathryn Davis
Two couples -- businessman Bobby Rose and his artist wife, Carole Ridingham; his partner, Coleman Snow, and Snow's wife, Ruth Farr -- have gone on a walking tour in Wales, during which a fatal accident occurs. The question of what happened preoccupies not only an ensuing negligence trial but also the narrator, Bobby and Carole's daughter, Susan, who lives alone in her parents' house near the coast of Maine. Assisted by court transcripts, a notebook computer containing Ruth Farr's journal, and a young vagrant who has taken to camping on her doorstep, Susan lays open the moral predicament at the heart of the book: we are culpable beings, even though we live in a world of imperfect knowledge.
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Two couples -- businessman Bobby Rose and his artist wife, Carole Ridingham; his partner, Coleman Snow, and Snow's wife, Ruth Farr -- have gone on a walking tour in Wales, during which a fatal accident occurs. The question of what happened preoccupies not only an ensuing negligence trial but also the narrator, Bobby and Carole's daughter, Susan, who lives alone in her parents' house near the coast of Maine. Assisted by court transcripts, a notebook computer containing Ruth Farr's journal, and a young vagrant who has taken to camping on her doorstep, Susan lays open the moral predicament at the heart of the book: we are culpable beings, even though we live in a world of imperfect knowledge.
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- Title The Walking Tour
- Author Kathryn Davis
- Binding Paperback
- Edition science, humanit
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Mariner Books, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Date 2000-11-08
- ISBN 9780618082384 / 0618082387
- Weight 0.78 lbs (0.35 kg)
- Dimensions 8.55 x 5.5 x 0.7 in (21.72 x 13.97 x 1.78 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
"Entrancing . . . every sentence uncoils with supple grace." The Los Angeles Times
I cannot say how much I admire Kathryn Davis and her latest triumph, THE WALKING TOUR. The book is so beautifully written it takes one’s breath away brilliant in every way, and often delightfully funny.” -- Sigrid Nunez
"Kathryn Davis is brilliant." --Penelope Fitzgerald
Davis’s approach to novel-writing is so original, and the results so magical, that trying to review her fiction in a thousand words on a tight deadline feels . . . doomed.”
Newsday
A brilliantly dexterous novel” (NEW YORK TIMES), so ambitious, so smart, so beautifully written that it is a pleasure to stand in its light.”
Mirabella
I cannot say how much I admire Kathryn Davis and her latest triumph, THE WALKING TOUR. The book is so beautifully written it takes one’s breath away brilliant in every way, and often delightfully funny.” -- Sigrid Nunez
"Kathryn Davis is brilliant." --Penelope Fitzgerald
Davis’s approach to novel-writing is so original, and the results so magical, that trying to review her fiction in a thousand words on a tight deadline feels . . . doomed.”
Newsday
A brilliantly dexterous novel” (NEW YORK TIMES), so ambitious, so smart, so beautifully written that it is a pleasure to stand in its light.”
Mirabella
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