Those Who Walk Away

Name: Those Who Walk Away
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Patricia Highsmith
ISBN: 9780871132598

Patricia Highsmith

18/01/1994
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de Those Who Walk Away par Patricia Highsmith

Résumé

The honeymoon is over, as they say, the bride dead by her own hand. Ray Garrett, the grieving husband, convinces the police in Rome of his innocence, but not his thuggish father-in-law, an American painter named Ed Coleman, who shoots him at point-blank range and leaves him for dead. Ray survives, however, and follows Coleman to Venice, where the two fall into an eerie game of cat-and-mouseColeman obsessed with vengeance and Ray equally insistent on clearing his conscience, though each is at once the hunter and the hunted in a duel composed of tension, hiding, and guessing, and at times punctuated by violence that, even as each manages to walk away, draws them nearer to death."