The Walking Tour ***Author's Note and Inscription!!!***

Davis, Kathryn; Kathryn, Davis

ISBN 10: 0395945410 / ISBN 13: 9780395945414

Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 1999

About this Item

264 pp. Author's Note and Inscription!!! Solidly bound copy and dj with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text.

Seller Inventory # 2ivAe0025

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Walking Tour ***Author's Note and Inscription!!!***
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0395945410
• ISBN 13: 9780395945414
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Marion Ettlinger (Author Photo); Thea Schrack (Jacket Photo); Archie Ferguson (Jacket Design); Anne Chalmers (Book Design)
• Edition: Copyright © 1999
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: ***Author's Note and Inscripti
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction-Fictional Novel, Literary Fiction & Novel

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Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

Kathryn Davis teaches at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York.

Kathryn Davis is the recipient of a Kafka Prize for fiction by an American woman and the 1999 Morton Dauwen Zabel Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters. Davis teaches at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York and lives with her husband and daughter in Vermont.