The Walking Tour
- List Price: $23.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
- Publish date: 11/01/1999
Description:
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 Fine -- 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 parent's 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 Fine's journal, and by the menacing young vagrant who was 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.
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By turns dazzling and dark, as risky 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. As with Davis's previous novel, "the reader closes the book as if walking from a dream" (The New Yorker).
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