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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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"Kathryn Davis is brilliant." --Penelope Fitzgerald
"A brilliantly dexterous novel" (NEW YORK TIMES), "so ambitious, so
smart, so beautifully written that it is a pleasure to stand in its
light."
"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."
"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."
"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
" A brilliantly dexterous novel" (NEW YORK TIMES), " so ambitious, so
smart, so beautifully written that it is a pleasure to stand in its
light."
" 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."
" 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
& quot; A brilliantly dexterous novel& quot; (NEW YORK TIMES), & quot; so ambitious, so smart, so beautifully written that it is a pleasure to stand in its light.& quot;
& quot; 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.& quot;
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"A brilliantly dexterous novel" (NEW YORK TIMES), "so ambitious, so
smart, so beautifully written that it is a pleasure to stand in its
light."
"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."
"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."
"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
" A brilliantly dexterous novel" (NEW YORK TIMES), " so ambitious, so
smart, so beautifully written that it is a pleasure to stand in its
light."
" 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."
" 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
& quot; A brilliantly dexterous novel& quot; (NEW YORK TIMES), & quot; so ambitious, so smart, so beautifully written that it is a pleasure to stand in its light.& quot;
& quot; 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.& quot;
A walking tour in Wales ends in tragedy for two couples, leaving a legal and psychological nightmare for one of their children, Susan, to sort out.
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- PublisherHoughton Mifflin (Trade)
- Publication date1999
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