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The Horizontal Man

Autor Helen Eustis, Charles Finch
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 iul 2020
The Horizontal Man was Helen Eustis's only crime novel, and she won an Edgar Award for it, combining a wildly disparate set of elements into an enduringly fascinating work. In its way it is a classical whodunit that stands comparison with old-school practitioners such as Agatha Christie or Dorothy Sayers. This mystery transpires in the rarefied precincts of the English department of a venerable college, an English department very much of the restless postwar moment, echoing with references to Freud and Kafka. Eustis finds comedy high and low in a cavalcade of characters bursting at the seams with repressed sexual longings and simmering malice. Beyond the satire, she stirs up - with a narrative whose multiple viewpoints give the book a deliberately modernistic edge - a troubling sense of the mental chaos lurking just beneath the civilized surfaces of her academic setting.
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ISBN-13: 9781598536317
ISBN-10: 1598536311
Pagini: 318
Dimensiuni: 123 x 205 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Penguin Random House Group
Colecția Library of America
Locul publicării:United States

Descriere

A poet on the faculty of an Ivy League school is found murdered, setting off ripple effects of anxiety, suspicion, and panic in this Edgar Award-winning classic from 1946.