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The Blunderer
A Virago Modern Classic
Series: Virago Modern Classics
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The Blunderer
First published in 1953, The Blunderer is often hailed as Highsmith's finest novel, about the rise and fall of a faithful suburban husband who plots his wife's demise in fantasies gruesome and eerily serene.
First published in 1953, The Blunderer is often hailed as Highsmith's finest novel, about the rise and fall of a faithful suburban husband who plots his wife's demise in fantasies gruesome and eerily serene.
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The Blunderer was written by Highsmith in between Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr Ripley. 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, the suspicions of the lead cop, and his own increasingly life-threatening blunders.
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Series: Virago Modern Classics
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The Blunderer by Patricia Highsmith is described as an almost unputdownable read, with the author being likened to a spider writing about flies, suggesting a gripping narrative. The book's unsettling nature makes it comparable to bad dreams that linger, indicative of Highsmith's ability to craft profoundly disturbing and engaging thrillers.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780349004525
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 07 May 2015
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Virago Press Ltd
Contributors:
- Introduction by Denise Mina
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 19.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 220g
Pages: 384
About the Author
Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) was born in Fort Worth, Texas. Her first novel, Strangers on a Train, was made into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. The Talented Mr Ripley, published in 1955, introduced the fascinating anti-hero Tom Ripley, and was made into an Oscar-winning film in 1999 by Anthony Minghella. Graham Greene called Patricia Highsmith 'the poet of apprehension', saying that she 'created a world of her own - a world claustrophobic and irrational which we enter each time with a sense of personal danger'. Patricia Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland, in February 1995. Her last novel, Small g: A Summer Idyll, was published posthumously, the same year.
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