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Graham Greene
‘Highsmith’s finest novel’
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'Highsmith's finest novel' Graham Greene 'One of her best books ... She creates a lot of dread and a lot of apprehension very casually' Jonathan Lethem, Chicago Tribune 'One of Highsmith's finest novels' New York Times 'Highsmith lived in her imagination, and, ultimately, it's in her uniquely disturbing stories that you'll find her' LA Weekly
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
It's a while since I read this book. Oddly enough, it was the first Highsmith I read. The Tremor of Forgery is set in slightly lawless Tunisia, which provides the backdrop to a great story of unease. It is not quite clear what happens, maybe there is a death and maybe it is murder. In the background, there are other shadowy stories. For those who like everything neatly resolved, choose another novel (and preferably another writer). For a mood of anxiety and mystery, I don't think you can do better.
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Any PH fan will be satisfied with this novel. As usual, the sense of place is wonderfully realised and anyone who enjoys the world PH creates, with messages at hotels and international newspapers and strange encounters, will enjoy the book. The plot is restrained and minimal but still gives a drive to the suspense and apprehension we have come to expect. The lead character, Ingham, finds himself alone in Tunisia and decides to write a novel. An incident with an intruder leads him to introspection and his girlfriend arrives to find him almost 'going native'. As so often in these works, the peripheral characters are compelling. The odd and rather annoying 'OWL' lends a political dimension, whilst it is Jensen (and his dog) that provides a touching but not sentimental picture of male friendship which leads to the conclusion.
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If you like Patricia Highsmith, I can't imagine you won't like this. It is unpredictable, unsettling and hypnotically engaging, each to a high degree.
Ingham arrives in Tunisia to make plans for a movie which he is to make with his friend John, about a Highsmith-esque love triangle (A hates B for marrying his girl, C. A fakes friendship with B, ruins his marriage and life and kills him). Incidentally in real life we infer that John loves Ina, Ingham's finace. As John waits for contact from either John or Ina, which does not come, and settles into the unsettled feel of Algeria at the time of the Six Day War (anti American feeling is not a 21C construct!) the shadows gather. But being Highsmith they are not the shadows you have been anticipating! Without company Ingham befriends a determinedly pro-American exile of bumptious morality, and a Danish painter with a distressing taste for bought and paid for underage boys (I suspect were the book to be published for the first time now, the attitude to this would be edited somewhat from the 1960's tone of acceptance which prevails!). He also sinks daily deeper into his own new book about the mind of a man with no conventional morality. Bobbing between these forces his life drifts away from the moorings he brought with him. He may or may not commit a murder, and struggles to deal with the situtation away from his known environment. His relationship with Ina zooms in and out of focus in his mind. What does the future hold for him?
I am not giving it 5 stars purely because I don't myself really enjoy Highsmith's uncertainties and moral challenges - but for those who don't mind the haunting, it is a very fine book indeed!
Ingham arrives in Tunisia to make plans for a movie which he is to make with his friend John, about a Highsmith-esque love triangle (A hates B for marrying his girl, C. A fakes friendship with B, ruins his marriage and life and kills him). Incidentally in real life we infer that John loves Ina, Ingham's finace. As John waits for contact from either John or Ina, which does not come, and settles into the unsettled feel of Algeria at the time of the Six Day War (anti American feeling is not a 21C construct!) the shadows gather. But being Highsmith they are not the shadows you have been anticipating! Without company Ingham befriends a determinedly pro-American exile of bumptious morality, and a Danish painter with a distressing taste for bought and paid for underage boys (I suspect were the book to be published for the first time now, the attitude to this would be edited somewhat from the 1960's tone of acceptance which prevails!). He also sinks daily deeper into his own new book about the mind of a man with no conventional morality. Bobbing between these forces his life drifts away from the moorings he brought with him. He may or may not commit a murder, and struggles to deal with the situtation away from his known environment. His relationship with Ina zooms in and out of focus in his mind. What does the future hold for him?
I am not giving it 5 stars purely because I don't myself really enjoy Highsmith's uncertainties and moral challenges - but for those who don't mind the haunting, it is a very fine book indeed!
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