A Sight for Sore Eyes
Rendell, Ruth
Sold by Broad Street Book Centre, Hereford, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller since April 18, 2002
Used - Hardcover
Condition: Used - Fine
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Add to basketSold by Broad Street Book Centre, Hereford, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller since April 18, 2002
Condition: Used - Fine
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketSigned. First edition. First printing. 388pp. Some bumps to spine and very light shelf wear to dust jacket o/w a lovely copy. OVERSEAS ORDERS MAY INCUR EXTRA SHIPPING.
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Teddy is another of Rendell's frightening moral cripples, a seemingly ordinary person capable of the vilest crimes. When he becomes obsessed with Francine after meeting her at art school, we know to expect murder--we just aren't sure when, or who will be the victim. Equally vile is Julia, Francine's stepmother, a psychologist of such immense and malevolent ineptness that we would swear she couldn't possibly exist if real life hadn't taught us otherwise. Other important characters are Harriet, a faded beauty who connects the past to the present; Teddy's uncle Keith, who first recognizes the boy's madness; and a bright red, lovingly restored Edsel, which becomes a hearse.
Like all of her books, Rendell's latest is really about the secret acts of insanity that occur behind closed doors. Among her best books available in paperback are From Doon with Death, A Guilty Thing Surprised, The Keys to the Street, and, from the excellent Inspector Wexford series, Kissing the Gunner's Daughter, Road Rage, and Simisola. --Dick Adler
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