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For the Rest of Her Life
For the Rest of Her Life
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"Along with Raymond Chandler, Cornell Woolrich practically invented the genre of noir." --Newsday
"Critical sobriety is out of the question so long as this master of terror-in-the-commonplace exerts his spell." - Anthony Boucher, The New York Times Book Review
"No one has ever surpassed Cornell Woolrich for shear suspense, or equalled him for exciting entertainment." - Robert Bloch
"Woolrich can distill more terror, more excitement, more downright nail-biting suspense out of even the most commonplace happenings than nearly all his competitors." - Ellery Queen
"An opus out of the ordinary, highly emotional and suspenseful, with a surprise finish that turns somersaults." - The Saturday Review of Literature on "The Bride Wore Black".
"Revered by mystery fans, students of film noir, and lovers of hardboiled crime fiction and detective novels, Cornell Woolrich remains almost unknown to the general reading public. His obscurity persists even though his Hollywood pedigree rivals or exceeds that of Cain, Chandler, and Hammett. What Woolrich lacked in literary prestige he made up for in suspense. Nobody was better at it." - Richard Dooling, from his Introduction to the print edition.
"He was the greatest writer of suspense fiction that ever lived." -- Francis M. Nevins, Cornell Woolrich Biographer
"For the Rest of Her Life" was first published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine in May of 1968 and has a special distinction among Woolrich stories. It was the last story that Woolrich would see to be published during his lifetime and some critics will tell you it was one of the best he had written during the last years of his life. It has sometimes been published over the years as "Now I've Got You" and is a dark story about a woman who marries a man that is sadistic and a wife beater.
Linda, the wife, meets Garry and tells him of her unfortunate circumstances and together they try to escape her brutality. But the couple seems to make one bad choice after another and as a reader you feel the tightness in your chest as the characters move toward one of the darkest endings in a Woolrich story.
"Critical sobriety is out of the question so long as this master of terror-in-the-commonplace exerts his spell." - Anthony Boucher, The New York Times Book Review
"No one has ever surpassed Cornell Woolrich for shear suspense, or equalled him for exciting entertainment." - Robert Bloch
"Woolrich can distill more terror, more excitement, more downright nail-biting suspense out of even the most commonplace happenings than nearly all his competitors." - Ellery Queen
"An opus out of the ordinary, highly emotional and suspenseful, with a surprise finish that turns somersaults." - The Saturday Review of Literature on "The Bride Wore Black".
"Revered by mystery fans, students of film noir, and lovers of hardboiled crime fiction and detective novels, Cornell Woolrich remains almost unknown to the general reading public. His obscurity persists even though his Hollywood pedigree rivals or exceeds that of Cain, Chandler, and Hammett. What Woolrich lacked in literary prestige he made up for in suspense. Nobody was better at it." - Richard Dooling, from his Introduction to the print edition.
"He was the greatest writer of suspense fiction that ever lived." -- Francis M. Nevins, Cornell Woolrich Biographer
"For the Rest of Her Life" was first published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine in May of 1968 and has a special distinction among Woolrich stories. It was the last story that Woolrich would see to be published during his lifetime and some critics will tell you it was one of the best he had written during the last years of his life. It has sometimes been published over the years as "Now I've Got You" and is a dark story about a woman who marries a man that is sadistic and a wife beater.
Linda, the wife, meets Garry and tells him of her unfortunate circumstances and together they try to escape her brutality. But the couple seems to make one bad choice after another and as a reader you feel the tightness in your chest as the characters move toward one of the darkest endings in a Woolrich story.
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