Tremor of Forgery

Resumen del libro

The Tremor of Forgery was first published in 1969. Nearly twenty years later, in 1988, The New Yorker declared Patricia Highsmith's best novel. At long last, after thirty-five years and two dozen books, Highsmith has begun to win acclaim she has long deserved in America.

Under the hot desert sun nothing is quite as it seems. Howard Ingham, an American writer, is sent to Tunisia to gather material for a movie, a love story too sordid to be set in America. But his director fails to arrive as scheduled and the erratic mails bring news of infidelities and suicide. Ingham for reasons obscure even to himself decides to stay on and work instead on a novel. Gradually, however, a series of peculiar events a hushed-up murder, a vanished corpse, and secret broadcasts to the Soviet Union lures him inexorably into the deep, ambivalent shadows of this Arab town; into deceit and away from conventional morality. And when Ingham finds an accomplice to murder, or perhaps something more, what is in question is not justice or truth, but the state of his oddly quiet conscience.

Biografía del autor

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