The Walking Stick

by Winston Graham

Book Overview

Deborah, cultured and intelligent, has been handicapped since childhood. Convinced of her lack of attractiveness, her work has become her life. Leigh, a painter, refuses to be discouraged by her... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9997413024
• ISBN13: 9789997413024
• Release Date: January 1967
• Publisher: Doubleday & Company
• Length: 575 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.

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Deborah Dainton was born with polio but with the aid of a walking stick, she still is able to hold a job as appraising precious chinaware for Whittington Auction House. Bohemian artist Leigh Hartly is not put off by the beautiful and cultured Deborah's refusals to see him. Slowly, she falls in love with him and so is drawn by small and sinister steps into a world new to her, a world of shills and front men where the stakes are high and the danger also. The climax of this book is a precisely executed and dangerous robbery, described in the novel as it occurs minute by minute in masterly detail.