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The Tremor of Forgery by Patricia Highsmith, Francine Prose is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Tremor of Forgery about?

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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It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.

Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Patricia Highsmith, Francine Prose
Publisher
Grove Press
Published
2011
Language
EN
ISBN
9780802145642
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Thriller, Fiction, Mystery
Rating
3.77 / 5 (834 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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