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Walter Stockhouse no longer loves his wife and wishes that she was dead - a wish that is fulfilled when her body is discovered at the bottom of a cliff. Kept under close police scrutiny, Walter must eventually struggle for his own life in this suspense novel, reissued for the first time since 1956.
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Almost unputdownable. Miss Highsmith writes about men like a spider writing about flies. (The Observer)
Highsmith's novels are peerlessly disturbing ....bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night (The New Yorker)
One of the greatest modernist writers (Gore Vidal)
My suspicion is that when the dust has settled and when the chronicle of 20th-century American literature comes to be written, history will place Highsmith at the top of the pyramid, as we should place Dostoevsky at the top of the Russian hierarchy of novelists (A.N Wilson Daily Telegraph)
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Highsmith's novels are peerlessly disturbing ....bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night (The New Yorker)
One of the greatest modernist writers (Gore Vidal)
My suspicion is that when the dust has settled and when the chronicle of 20th-century American literature comes to be written, history will place Highsmith at the top of the pyramid, as we should place Dostoevsky at the top of the Russian hierarchy of novelists (A.N Wilson Daily Telegraph)
First published in 1953, The Blunderer is often hailed as Highsmith's finest novel, about the rise and fall of a faithful suburban husband who plots his wife's demise in fantasies gruesome and eerily serene.
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- PublisherWilliam Heinemann Ltd
- Publication date1966
- ISBN 10 0434334995
- ISBN 13 9780434334995
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages296
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Blue cloth with spine titles in yellow. 288 pages. First published in 1956. Some light toning to top edge, otherwise fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with very light wear. Jacket is in a mylar protector. Seller Inventory # 091637
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1990 Heinemann hardcover reprint. Uncommon in this edition. Light reading wear, a litle creasing to edge of dustjacket else very good condition. Housed in custom-made slipcase covered in cream bookcloth and lined with turqouise acid-free archival paper. Seller Inventory # SM-PK87-F6H1
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