The Walking Tour

Name: The Walking Tour
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Kathryn Davis
ISBN: 9781094004983

Author: Kathryn Davis

Narrator: Elisabeth Rodgers

Unabridged: 7 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 01/11/2020

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Literary Fiction

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 Kathryn Davis

Kathryn Davis is an award-winning American novelist. She is a recipient of the Kafka Prize, both the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award and the Katherine Anne Porter Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a 2000 Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction in 2006. She is senior fiction writer on the faculty of the writing program at Washington University in St. Louis.

About Elisabeth Rodgers

Elisabeth Rodgers is an actress and AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator. After graduating from Princeton University, she completed a two-year program at William Esper Studio, where she studied with Maggie Flanigan. Her audiobook narration training came from Robin Miles, who has also directed her in several productions. She has recorded dozens of books for a multitude of publishers.

About Jayme Mattler

Jayme Mattler is a professional voiceover artist with years of experience in recording, directing, and producing. Passionate about narrating audiobooks, she has been the recipient of multiple Audie Award nominations.

Reviews

Goodreads review by karen on May 30, 2020

wow. so i finished this book today and rather than start the new book i brought for the subway ride home, i just started this thing all over again. it's really good. that's why it astounds me that there are so many one- and two-star reviews on here. this is good stuff, guys! i was talking to tom fuller......more

Goodreads review by Roswitha on June 05, 2020

Kathryn Davis has a much less optimistic sense of tragedy than Ann Patchett, but she’s just as relentless in pursuing it to its logical, and even illogical, conclusions. It turns out this is the second time I’ve read this book – in the past couple of decades since it was published – and I’m just as......more

Goodreads review by Pamster on January 04, 2008

Maybe five stars? I loved The Thin Place as well. She seems to only tell stories in completely extraordinary ways. I can't wait to get to the rest of her books. This is about 2 couples on a walking tour, a bunch of shit that may or may not have happened, and an unreliable narrator years later piecin......more

Goodreads review by Colleen on June 30, 2009

I'm not quite finished with this book (maybe 30 pages left) and I'm trying to decide whether or not I care enough to finish it. The author gives you an inkling of what happens, but doesn't actually give you the full information until almost 200 pages in. At that point I was just reading to satisfy m......more

Goodreads review by Alison on April 09, 2009

I begin with the modest aim of writing a nice review of Davis's very nice book, but I find my intentions and memories of the book--and particularly my belief that I've understood Davis's aims--riddled with uncertainties. Which is, I think, how Davis would have it--so I'll leave it at that. A pleasur......more

Quotes

“The playfulness of Davis’s writing is irresistible…Her prose is clever, sometimes dazzling, skating lightly over complex ideas that otherwise might bog down the narrative.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)