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A Dark-Adapted Eye
by Ruth Rendell
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- ISBN 10
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- ISBN 13
- 9780452270640
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Paperback / softback. New. "Dazzling...writing at her formidable best, Barbara Vine taps the poetry as well as the pain of her characters' clamorous declarations of their need for love."Â âNew York Times Book Review<br /><br />"When the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world launched a second byline, she actually stepped up her writing a level."Â âTIME<br /><br />Faith Severn has grown up with the dark cloud of murder looming over her family. Her aunt Vera Hillyard, a rigidly respectable woman, was convicted and hanged for the crime, but the reason for her desperate deed died with her. Thirty years later, a probing journalist pushes Faith to look back to the day when her aunt took knife in hand and walked into a child's nursery. Through the eyes of a woman trying to understand an unspeakable, inexplicable family tragedy, Barbara Vine leads us through a shadow land of illicit lust, intimate sins, and unspoken passionsâto a shattering and illuminating climax, as inevitable as it is unexpected. In this enthralling masterpiece, a great crime writer has achieved both a flawlessly crafted novel of psychological suspense and a deeply probing work of literary art.
Synopsis
Like most families, they had their secrets... And they hid them under a genteelly respectable veneer. No onlooker would guess that prim Vera Hillyard and her beautiful, adored younger sister, Eden, were locked in a dark and bitter combat over one of those secrets. England in the fifties was not kind to women who erred, so they had to use every means necessary to keep the truth hidden behind closed doors - even murder.
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- Title
- A Dark-Adapted Eye
- Author
- Ruth Rendell
- Format/Binding
- Paperback / softback
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 10
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0452270642
- ISBN 13
- 9780452270640
- Publisher
- Plume
- Place of Publication
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- This edition first published
- 1993-10-01
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