The Blunderer

@2@@20@'My suspicion is that when the dust has settled and when the chronicle of 20th-century American literature comes to be written, history will place Highsmith at the top of the pyramid, as we should place Dostoevsky at the top of the Russian hierarchy of novelists' A. N. Wilson, @18@Daily Telegraph@19@@21@@16@@18@@19@@16@@18@The Blunderer@19@ was written by Highsmith in between @18@Strangers on a Train@19@ and @18@The Talented Mr Ripley@19@. The novel follows the young, successful and handsome, Walter Stackhouse who seems to have it all, that is, until the day his wife's body is found at the bottom of a cliff. Under the intense scrutiny of the investigation he commits one mistake, then another, until - in true Highsmithian fashion - Walter finds his perfect life derailed. Now Walter is running from the obsessions of the murderer, and the suspicions of the lead cop, not to mention his own increasingly life-threatening blunders.@3@

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My suspicion is that when the dust has settled and when the chronicle of twentieth century American literature comes to be written, history will place Highsmith at the top of the pyramid, as we should place Dostoevsky at the top of the Russian hierarchy of novelists A. N. Wilson Daily Telegraph

Product details

• Authors: Patricia Highsmith
• Assisted by: Denise Mina (Introduction)
• Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.05.2015
• EAN: 9780349004525
• ISBN: 978-0-349-00452-5
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Virago Modern Classics; Virago modern classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth, Crime & mystery, FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, FICTION / Thrillers / Domestic, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Family life fiction, Crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: police procedural