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A Dark-adapted Eye
[Paperback - 1993]
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Mystery
Additional Category: Literary Fiction - Thrillers
Publisher: Plume | ISBN: 9780452270640 | Pages: 288
Shipping Weight: .17 | Dimensions: 4.2 x .75 x 6.8 inches

"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." —New York Times Book Review

"When the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world launched a second byline, she actually stepped up her writing a level." —TIME

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 passions—to 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.

Pseudonym ofRuth Rendell.Rendell created a third strand of writing with the publication ofA Dark Adapted Eyeunder her pseudonym Barbara Vine in 1986. Books such asKing Solomon's Carpet,A Fatal InversionandAnna's Book(original UK titleAsta's Book) inhabit the same territory as her psychological crime novels while they further develop themes of family misunderstandings and the side effects of secrets kept and crimes done. Rendell is famous for her elegant prose and sharp insights into the human mind, as well as her ability to create cogent plots and characters. Rendell has also injected the social changes of the last 40 years into her work, bringing awareness to such issues as domestic violence and the change in the status of women.

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