

The Blunderer
Author: Patricia Highsmith
Narrator: Robert Fass
Unabridged: 9 hr 17 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 10/27/2015
Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Crime
Author: Patricia Highsmith
Narrator: Robert Fass
Unabridged: 9 hr 17 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 10/27/2015
Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Crime
Patricia Highsmith (1921–1995) was an American author most widely known for her psychological thrillers, which led to more than two dozen film adaptations. She wrote more than twenty novels, including Strangers on a Train, The Price of Salt, and The Talented Mr. Ripley, as well as numerous short stories.
Robert Fass is a veteran actor and twice winner of the prestigious Audie Award for best narration. He has earned multiple Earphones Awards and been named in AudioFile magazine’s list of the year’s best narrations for six years.
Walter is an idiot. Kimmel is a psychopath. Corby is a delusional bastard. Clara is psychotic vindictive irksome woman. Ellie is just okay-ish. It's just that Patricia Highsmith can write and keep you reading.......more
The Blunderer is what might be seen as a “minor” and certainly neglected novel by Patricia Highsmith (The Talented Mr. Ripley, Strangers on a Train, Carol [The Price of Salt]) I am told was kind of “resurrected” by the Library of America, who published a volume, Four Suspense Novels by Women of the......more
“For eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there’s no one like Patricia Highsmith.” Time
“Highsmith’s The Blunderer, like her well-remembered Strangers on a Train has a striking plot idea: a curious intertwining of the motives and methods of two deaths, so complex that it defies brief synopsis.” New York Times
“Highsmith’s novels are peerlessly disturbing…bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night.” New Yorker
“Has much of the malevolent intensity of Strangers On A Train and the whim of circumstance does much to victimize Walter Stackhouse, a lawyer…Clever.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Offer[s] more of Highsmith’s signature characters in plots where fairly ordinary people perform extraordinary acts of brutality.” Library Journal