Tryst - Softcover

Dibdin, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571142214 ISBN 13: 9780571142217

Publisher: Faber and Faber, 1999

Synopsis

Psychiatrist Aileen Macklin's marriage to a man she met at Sussex University in the sixties is under strain when she is called in to attend to young Gary Dunn. In and out of trouble, his mental state isn't improved by having witnessed a murder the police think he knows more about than he will say. His squalid life with a group of glue-sniffing squatters doesn't help either. Yet Aileen feels mysteriously drawn to him and her discovery of his true identity provides a disturbing link with her own past - the acid-dropping sixties and the man she didn't marry.

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Review:

"Stunningly handled narrative. . . . Unnerving as rustling sheets in an unoccupied bed." --The Guardian

"Brings to the sudden-death genre a subtle humanism and to the mainstream novel a vivid and dramatic narrative gift." --Sunday Times [London]

"An extraordinary performance, absorbing, tantalizing, concretely realized, often funny, more often genuinely menacing." --The Times (London)

"Stunning originality, a true gift for drawing remarkable characters, and a real feeling for historical evocation." --Ruth Rendell

"[A] searingly unusual novel." --The Observer

About the Author:

Michael Dibdin was born in 1947. He went to school in Northern Ireland, and later to Sussex University and the University of Alberta in Canada. He lived in Seattle.After completing his first novel, The Last Sherlock Holmes Story, in 1978, he spent four years in Italy teaching English at the University of Perugia. His second novel, A Rich Full Death, was published in 1986. It was followed by Ratking in 1988, which won the Gold Dagger Award for the Best Crime Novel of the year and introduced us to his Italian detective - Inspector Aurelio Zen. In 1989 The Tryst was published to great acclaim and was followed by Vendetta in 1990, the second story in the Zen series. Dirty Tricks was published in 1991. Inspector Zen made his third appearance in Cabal, which was published in 1992. The Dying of the Light, an Agatha Christie pastiche, was published in 1993. His fourth Zen novel, Dead Lagoon, was published the following year. His next novel, Dark Spectre, was published in 1995. Two more Zen novels followed: Cosi Fan Tutti, set in Naples, was published in 1996 and A Long Finish was published in 1998. Blood Rain, the seventh Zen novel, was published in 1999. Thanksgiving was published in 2000, with the eighth Zen, And Then You Die, appearing in 2002. Aurelio Zen returned in Medusa, in August 2003, and then again in Back to Bologna in 2005. His last novel, End Games, was published posthumously in July 2007.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber and Faber
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0571142214
• ISBN 13: 9780571142217
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176