The Tremor of Forgery

✍ Scribed by Patricia Highsmith

• Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.;Grove Press
• Year: 1969;2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 143 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

The Tremor of Forgery is considered by many to be Patricia Highsmith's finest novel. Set in Tunisia in the mid-1960s, it is the story of Howard Ingham, an American writer who has gone abroad to gather material for a movie too sordid to be set in America. Ingham is cool towards Ina, the girlfriend he left behind in New York, but his feelings start to change when she doesn't answer his increasingly aggravated letters, and John Castlewood, the filmmaker who hired Ingham, fails to show in Tunisia. Amid the tea shops and alleys of the souk, the sun-blasted architecture, and the beaches and hotels frequented by international tourists, will Inghams morality survive the withering heat? Includes an introduction by Francine Prose.

An American writer is sent to Tunisia to gather material for a movie, but when his producer fails to show up, he stays on and works instead on a novel. Intimations of violence soon cast deep shodows, and he finds himself an accomplice to murder.

Library : General
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9780802145642