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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It is the turn of this century. 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 lives alone in her parents' house near the coast of Maine, addressing us from a future in which property no longer shapes destiny, a position providing unusual perspective on the way we live now. Assisted by court transcripts, a notebook computer containing Ruth Farr's journal, as well as by the menacing young vagrant who's taken to camping on her doorstep, Susan ultimately 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. By turns dazzling and dark, as dangerous and entrancing as the Welsh landscape it describes, The Walking Tour is part mystery story, part shrewd visionary meditation on the uneasy marriage of art and commerce.

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Bookseller: Bookmarc's (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: SCW08300
Title: The Walking Tour: A Novel
Author: Davis, Kathryn
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued
ISBN 10: 0618082387
ISBN 13: 9780618082384
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Place of Publication: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Date Published: 2000
Keywords: Fiction Mystery Murder Crime Detective Detectives Mystery Legal Wales
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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