Trespassing The 2000 New England Booksellers' Association Award for a body of work The place, even at this distance in time, looms as a metaphor, a half remembered country of ruined estates, with canted terraces, broken balustrades and toppled pillars, and the...

"I have the feeling that science has transgressed a barrier that should have remained inviolate." --Dr. Erwin Chargaff, biochemist and the father of molecular biology Hidden inside Hilgard Hall, one of the oldest buildings on the campus of the University of...

[The Face of Trespass] is the story of Gray, a failed writer and nearly alienated man, sick with infatuation for a corrupt, rich, married girl, whom he dare not see for fear of her terrible demands. Ruth Rendell conveys the derelict half-dream, half-nightmare life Gray is leading in an Essex hovel far better than a crime-writer need, and through this, and his sad, unsatisfied love for a dog and for his ridiculous French stepfather, makes credible the blindness that allows him to be led to total disaster...