Going wrong

by Ruth Rendell

Paper Book, 1991

Status

Available

Call number

823.914

Tags

Crime, Fiction, Mystery

Genres

Publication

New York : The Mysterious Press, 1991. A Trademark of Warner Books, Inc.

Description

Fiction. Suspense. HTML: From a New York Times�??bestselling author: A chilling psychological thriller about one man's murderous obsession with his childhood sweetheart. Growing up in the roughest part of London, Guy Curran never imagined he would fall in love with a rich girl. But from the moment he meets Leonora Chisholm, he knows it's their destiny to be together. They have a short, passionate teenage fling�??over almost before it begins. Leonora moves on, but Guy never will. His love for her is dangerous, and it will destroy them both. Over the next ten years, Guy becomes a millionaire, selling hard drugs and bad art to the jet set of Western Europe. He and Leonora remain friends, sharing weekly lunches�??until the day he learns she's fallen in love with someone else. Seized by murderous jealousy, Guy is about to embark on a mad quest to claim the woman he desires�??or die trying. "Rendell is a master of depicting the long, slow slide into madness" and Going Wrong shows her brilliant ability to walk the line between elegance and terror (Publishers Weekly)… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member lsh63
Going Wrong is a very good suspense novel by Ruth Rendell. It's the story of Guy Curran who is in love with Leonora Chisolm. Guy just happens to be psychotic and believes that various members of Leonora's family are conspiring against him. He slowly loses his grip on reality while consuming large
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 quantities of alcohol while seeking a hitman to solve his problems.
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LibraryThing member KathrynCottam
No one writes about obsession and addiction better than Ruth Rendell.
LibraryThing member Bookmarque
Surprisingly unsubtle. After the first few chapters of all-out Guy monologues, I started looking for some from another POV. There weren’t any. It’s all obsession, all warped viewpoint, all delusion, all the time. And it is a pretty hard go in spots. How many times can you absorb how Guy thinks
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 a proper woman should dress, behave or have interest in? How many times do we have to see him dismiss Leonora as a person, reducing her to an object that can be manipulated and controlled? How many times do we have to see him pick another person to blame for why Leonora won’t throw herself into his arms for the fade out? It’s really trying and I admit to skimming in the middle of the book – especially when it was all ruminations on clothing and booze in between desperate phone calls trying to find Leonora. If it was dialed down or diluted with other perspectives, I think it might have been more effective, but it was a fire hose effect and way over the top. In the end I had zero sympathy for the endlessly idiotic Leonora and I didn’t buy her sly manipulation that is revealed in the end. There’s absolutely nothing to telegraph that kind of savvy scheming on her part. That she might have been playing a game out of fear is plausible, but it was too oblique. If there had been some chapters from her perspective, there would have been a cat-and-mouse element that would have been fun, but instead she’s a cipher to be pitied although I didn’t; she was too dumb and got what she deserved. Plus there was the sword fight so how the hell can I take the drama seriously with something like that? Oy.
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LibraryThing member Cecilturtle
This book seemed so linear! Rendell has a real knack for building characters, small details compounding into big ones like snowflakes gathering together to make a massive snowball. Guy, alcoholic, obsessed with his first love, is so graspable. Yet, we only see the world through his eyes and
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 flickers show us that there is so much more. Who are his friends and enemies? Will he be able to control his temper? Until de very end the reader is in suspense wondering when and how the situation will be resolved.
It's a master psychological thriller with a wonderful twist at the end. This is Rendell at her finest.
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Subjects

Awards

Crime Writers' Association Awards (Shortlist — 1990)

Language

English

Original language

English

Original publication date

1990

Physical description

260 p.; 17.2 cm

ISBN

0446400289 / 9780446400282

Local notes

Omslag: Jackie Merri Meyer
Omslagsillustration: Mel Odom
Omslaget viser en ung mand og en ung kvinde, der er lige ved at kysse hinanden
Indskannet omslag - N650U - 150 dpi
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Pages

260

Rating

(75 ratings; 3.2)

DDC/MDS

823.914

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