THE WALKING STICK

by Winston Graham ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 16, 1967

Deborah has a withered leg (polio) and uses a cane not only to walk with but also to beat off any possible involvements with the world. She works at Whittington's, a Sotheby type auction house; lives with her parents, rather antiseptic, enlightened intelligentsia; and at one of her more successful sister's parties meets Leigh Hartley, an artist, also ""geared to failure."" He makes her give up her walking stick, teaches her to skate, dance and love. He also is involved with debts, a dubious character--Jack Foil, and persuades her to help him in one ""caper""--a jewelry robbery at Whittington's. At the end Deborah is in the cul de sac where love has ""destroyed judgment, suspicion destroyed love"" and her only crutch is now her walking stick....Graham's most and best book since Marnie, this finds him at the top of his form in a genre he's always dominated: an edge of the chair entertainment for readers now, viewers later.

Pub Date: June 16, 1967

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Doubleday

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 1, 1967

Categories: FICTION