The Tremor of Forgery - Softcover

Highsmith, Patricia

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ISBN 10: 0747575010 ISBN 13: 9780747575016

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2006

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Howard Ingham finds it strange that no one has written to him since he arrived in Tunisia - neither the film director that he is supposed to be meeting in Tunis, nor his lover in New York who is, he hopes, missing him. While he waits around at a beach resort, unable to get going on the film script he is there to write, he starts work on a new novel, about a man living an amoral double life. Howard also befriends a fellow American who has a taste for Scotch and a suspicious interest in the Soviet Union, and a Dane who appears to distrust Arabs intensely. When bad news finally arrives from home, Howard thinks he may as well stay and continue writing, despite the tremors in the air of violence, tensions and ambiguous morals.

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Review:

‘Highsmith lived in her imagination, and, ultimately, it’s in her uniquely disturbing stories that you’ll find her’ -- LA Weekly

‘Highsmith’s finest novel’ -- Graham Greene

‘One of Highsmith’s finest novels’ -- New York Times

‘One of her best books ... She creates a lot of dread and a lot of apprehension very casually’ -- Jonathan Lethem, Chicago Tribune

From the Publisher:

Classic Patricia Highsmith novel - claimed to be one of her very best.

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