The Tremor of Forgery (Highsmith, Patricia)
 

The Tremor of Forgery

by Patricia Highsmith

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... (read more)

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Ken O'Neill
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This is an amazing novel. Very little actually happens, and yet Highsmith's mastery of suspense keeps the story taught and tense. In most of Highsmith's work there is strong gay subtext. In this work, it is the protagonists possible repressed homosexuality that is causing his life to spin out of control. It's his existence that is the forgery the title alludes to.

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