Those Who Walk Away

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Those Who Walk Away
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First edition
Author Patricia Highsmith
Language English
Genre Fiction
Set in Italy
Published Doubleday & Co.
Publication date
1967
Media typePrint
Pages229
OCLC 969333
LC Class PS3558.I366

Those Who Walk Away (1967) is a psychological thriller novel by Patricia Highsmith. It was the twelfth of her 22 novels.

Contents

Synopsis

When Ray Garrett's new wife kills herself on their honeymoon, he persuades the initially suspicious Rome police that he's innocent of any wrongdoing over the death. However, his father-in-law, the brutish Ed Coleman, is convinced Ray led to her death and shoots Ray, leaving him for dead. He survives and, desperate to prove himself, follows Coleman to Venice, the husband and father bound together by love and guilt, with Coleman still seeking justice and Garrett a clear conscience.

Reviews

It has been called Highsmith's "masterpiece". [1]

References

  1. Žižek, Slavoj (August 21, 2003). "Not a desire to have him, but to be like him". London Review of Books. Retrieved December 11, 2015.