A Sight For Sore Eyes (Signed 1st)
Ruth Rendell
Sold by Stanley Louis Remarkable Books, Saint Charles, IL, U.S.A.
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Add to basketSold by Stanley Louis Remarkable Books, Saint Charles, IL, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since November 16, 2021
Condition: Used - Fine
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basket. J. Binyon of the Evening Standard called it "extraordinarily funny" and a "triumph of black comedy" and praised the "wholly absorbing" narrative. Margo Kaufman of the Los Angeles Times called the novel a "stay-up-all-night read with a nail-biting climax" and praised the "vividly drawn" characters. This copy is fine in black cloth with gilt titles on the spine. No marks or damage at all. The unclipped DJ is also excellent. Signed by Rendell on the title page. . BI16.
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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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