- Paperback: 176 pages
- Publisher: Faber and Faber; New edition edition (7 Jun 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0571142214
- ISBN-13: 978-0571142217
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 483,495 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Psychiatrist Aileen Macklin's marriage to a man she met at Sussex University in the 1960s is under strain. She is called to attend to young Gary Dunn who is in and out of trouble. She is drawn mysteriously towards him as he reminds her of her past. The author's "Ratking" won a Gold Dagger award.
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.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
In a sharp departure from Dibdin's trademark ironic style (showcased in the Auerilo Zen series), The Tryst has an other-worldly feel and no discernable narrative. None the less it is a gripping book - you constantly feel that you are on the brink of discovering the key to the text - and a strangely satisfying ending. Don't bother if you are looking for a detective story, but you will be gripped if you are looking for a real mystery.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book had a fascinating storyline, focussing on the growing relationship between a homeless young boy and a reclusive old man, prone to telling stories. The text is rather disjointed, perhaps intentionally, as this mirrors the young boy's confused existence, but this made it somewhat difficult to concentrate at times. Nonetheless, a thought provoking story, with many of Dibdin's high quality character descriptions evident. Worth reading, but try some of his other works first.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Aileen Douglas is a psychiatrist and her patient is a seventeen-year old boy called Gray Dunn. She works in the Adolescent Unit of a psychiatric hospital, Maudsley Hospital, and she finds herself drawn to this mysterious boy who spent his youth with a group of squalid glue-sniffing squatters and who seems to be involved in a murder, the extent of which is still unclear. Aileen slowly discovers his true identity which provides a strange link with her own past.
A disturbing, eerie and menacing narrative which lacks the charm and the humour of the Aurelio Zen mystery novels.
A disturbing, eerie and menacing narrative which lacks the charm and the humour of the Aurelio Zen mystery novels.
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