An expatriate is beset by dark temptations in this tale by the author
of The Talented Mr. Ripley: “Her best novel” (The New Yorker).
Set in Tunisia in the mid-1960s, this 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 toward the girlfriend
he left behind in New York—but his feelings start to change when she
doesn’t answer his increasingly aggravated letters, and 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, Ingham tries
to pass the time by working on a writing project. But a series of
peculiar events—a hushed-up murder, a vanished corpse, secret
broadcasts to the Soviet Union—will pull him in, and may finally put
his increasingly fragile sense of morality to the test.
“Highsmith’s finest novel.” —Graham Greene, author of The
Quiet American “Her books have stylistic texture, psychological
depth, mesmeric readability.” —The Sunday Times
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ISBN
9780802194961
Publisert
2014
Utgiver
Vendor
Grove Press (ORIM)
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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