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Those Who Walk Away Kindle Edition

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“Patricia Highsmith’s novels are peerlessly disturbing . . . bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night.” —The New Yorker

Ray Garrett, a wealthy young American living in Europe, is grieving over the death of his wife. Ray is at a loss for why she would take her own life, but Peggy’s father Ed Coleman, has no such uncertainty—he blames Ray completely.

Late one night in Rome, Coleman shoots Ray at point-blank range. He thinks he’s had his revenge, but Ray survives, and follows Coleman and his wealthy girlfriend to Venice.

In Venice, it happens again: Coleman attacks his loathed son-in-law, dumping him into the cold waters of the laguna. Ray survives with the help of a boatman—and this time he goes into hiding, living in a privately rented room under a fake name. So begins an eerie game of cat and mouse. Coleman wants vengeance, Ray wants a clear conscience, and the police want to solve the mystery of what happened to the missing American.

As Ray and Coleman stalk each other through the narrow streets and canals, the hotels and bars of the beguiling city, Those Who Walk Away becomes a literary thriller that simmers with violence and unease from the acclaimed author of such classics as Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley.

“An atmosphere of nameless dread, of unspeakable foreboding, permeates every page of Patricia Highsmith.” —The Boston Globe

“For eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there’s no one like Patricia Highsmith.” —Time

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Praise for Those Who Walk Away:

“For me, the name ‘Patricia Highsmith’ designates a sacred territory: she is the One whose place among writers is that which Spinoza held for Gilles Deleuze (a ‘Christ among philosophers’) . . . [A] masterpiece.”—Slavoj Žižek, London Review of Books

Absorbing . . . illuminatingand always compelling.”Anthony Boucher, New York Times Book Review

[Ray and Coleman] are among the most memorable products of Highsmith’s powerful imagination . . . The deadly games of pursuit . . . are as subtle and interesting as anything being done in the novel today.”Julian Symons, Times Literary Supplement

The novel has many virtues, including a stunning sense of place and a fascinating cast of characters.”Pauline Mayer, Cleveland Plain Dealer

Praise for Patricia Highsmith:

“One of the 20th-century’s most powerful writers . . . [Highsmith] transcended the workaday limitations of the crime genre with an array of erotic predators and stylish plot-reversals. She wrote unpretentiously . . . and with profound psychological insight.”—Alexander Theroux, Wall Street Journal

[Highsmith’s] characters are irrational, and they leap to life in their very lack of reason . . . Highsmith is the poet of apprehension rather than fear.”Graham Greene

For some obscure reason, one of our greatest modernist writers, Patricia Highsmith, has been thought of in her own land as a writer of thrillers. She is both. She is certainly one of the most interesting writers of this dismal century.”Gore Vidal

Miss Highsmith’s genius is in presenting fantasy’s paradox: successes are not what they seem . . . Where in the traditional fairy tale the heroine turns the toad into a prince, in Miss Highsmith’s fables the prince becomes a toadsuccess is nearly always fatal . . . Combining the best features of the suspense genre with the best of existential fictiona reflectionthe stories are fabulous, in all the senses of that word.”Paul Theroux

She writes so fearlessly . . . about human relationships and the human heart. I always have this terrible sense of foreboding . . . you never feel safe.”Cate Blanchett

Patricia Highsmith’s novels are peerlessly disturbingbad dreams that keep us restless and thrashing for the rest of the night.”Terrence Rafferty, New Yorker

These days, just about all the exciting work in the murder-for-entertainment business descends not from Arthur Conan Doyle or Hammett but from Highsmith.”Atlantic

About the Author

Patricia Highsmith (1921–1995) was the author of more than twenty novels, including Strangers on a Train, The Price of Salt, and The Talented Mr. Ripley, as well as numerous short stories.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01NBMEC4H
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Grove Press (July 11, 2017)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 11, 2017
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3682 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 262 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #418,615 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #2,448 in International Mystery & Crime (Kindle Store)
- #5,052 in Psychological Thrillers (Kindle Store)
- #8,370 in Murder Thrillers

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Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) was the author of more than twenty novels, including Strangers on a Train, The Price of Salt and The Talented Mr. Ripley, as well as numerous short stories.

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Mcgivern Owen L

Done Just Right

Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2001

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"Those Who Walk Away" is a concise, fast reading novel of low-keyed suspense. The background is an appropriately gloomy wintertime Venice. Ray, the key character, has lost his wife to suicide. Ed is the unforgiving, not to mention self-centered, father in law who blames Ray for his daughter's death and tries to kill him. Ray pursues Ed through the canals, back streets, cafes, gondola rides and fancy hotels of Venice to clear his conscience and calm Ed down. The embittered Ed has none of this and chases Ray in the same fashion. Both find atmospheric Venetian "hiding places". To use a movie term, Highsmith makes use of an excellent supporting cast: Signor Ciardi, Inez, Luigi the gondolier and Elisabetta almost steal the show from the main characters. Highsmith also pulls the reader into the plot quickly, a talent of hers. We are involved from page one! The ending, which no reviewer should reveal, is smooth and satisfying. To fully enjoy the tale, the reader must surrender credibility on 2 points: 1) Those "meetings" between Ed and Ray are truly coincidental and 2) The Venetian police, as personified by Detective Dell'Isola, ask few questions and press few charges. I would give the author her license on those points and enjoy "TWWA" on its own merits. A closing question: Did Ray really let a nice Italian girl like Elisabetta get away? Did he ever go back to Venice to see her just once more?

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Charles Michener

This is a brilliant novel about the aftershock of a suicide

Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2015

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This is a brilliant novel about the aftershock of a suicide. A young woman, alluringly delicate and ungrounded, has killed herself. Her husband, a decent, well-to-do young man with vague ambitions to become an art dealer, is more numbed than shattered by her death and nagged by feelings of guilt that he could have done something to prevent it. Her father, an engineer turned painter who sponges off wealthy women, is grief-stricken to the point of murderous rage directed at his son-in-law, who he is convinced is responsible for his daughter's death. With typical low-key meticulousness, Highsmith sets these two men, Ray Garrett and Ed Coleman, at each other in a lethal, cat-and-mouse clash between crazed vengefulness and crazed innocence in - where else? - that most cat-and-mouse worthy of cities, Venice. Out of this deceptively simple conflict, Highsmitth weaves a wonderfully complex tale of two approaches to grief lethally entangled, tracing how one inexplicable act of self destruction can drive the survivors toward self-destruction as well. The book is only superficially a suspense novel. On a more compelling level, it is psychologically uncanny, and surprisingly humane. I couldn't put it down and its aftertaste still lingers.

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Strange story

Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2017

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At times I was quite at a loss, and frustrated at the two leading characters, especially Ray, and there were times when the story was able to engaged my attention and became interesting. In general, an interesting read if you can get into the story.

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Tom S.

A Strange Game

Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2014

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I'm a big fan of Patricia Highsmith, whose dark novels of suspense are somehow more chilling and memorable than other thrillers. Highsmith spent most of her adult life in Europe, where the French Existentialist movement made such an impact in the 1940s and '50s. This 1967 novel was clearly influenced by the works of Sartre, Genet, and particularly Camus. Many of her characters are Americans on the Continent, and that's the case here. It's a simple story, and Highsmith mainly explores the deepest inner feelings of the two men at its center.

Ray Garrett is suddenly a widower--his bride has inexplicably committed suicide in Rome. Ray blames himself. So does her father, Ed Coleman, who tries to kill his son-in-law soon after the funeral. Ray follows Ed to Venice, seeking to prove his innocence. Ed attacks him again, and again he survives. Ray continues to shadow his violent father-in-law because he feels guilty--and so does Ed. These two are locked in a strange, deadly game, which is apparently the only way they can mourn their mutual loss. Does Ray want Ed to kill him as some sort of punishment? Is Ed hoping the younger man will defend himself? Where will it all lead? That's the suspense.

THOSE WHO WALK AWAY isn't my favorite Highsmith novel, but it has a compelling, hypnotic quality. If you're not familiar with her work, you might want to start with another title like Strangers on a Train or The Talented Mr. Ripley . But her fans will definitely want to read it. Recommended.

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R. Sullivan

Really felt like Venice!

Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2021

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If you know me, you know I love Venice. This story really put me right there with the people and places that I have gotten to know in my travels even half a century after Highsmith wrote this book. I was very concerned for Ray at every turn. Seems like it would make for a fun movie too but I suppose that'll never happen.

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Wayne F. Burke

lower-Smith

Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2021

too little happens and that little happens too slowly. Too complicated and drawn-out the set-up. Work lacks tension--fails to create apprehension, so palpable in other Highsmith novels.

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