The Tremor of Forgery, Patricia Highsmith
The Tremor of Forgery, Patricia Highsmith
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The Tremor of Forgery

Author: Patricia Highsmith

Narrator: Steve Marvel

Unabridged: 8 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/05/2021


Synopsis

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.

About Patricia Highsmith

Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) was the author of more than twenty novels, including Strangers on a Train, The Price of Salt, and The Talented Mr. Ripley, as well as numerous short stories.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Anastasia on October 28, 2012

The Tremor of Forgery is the first novel by Patricia Highsmith that I have ever read. It was this year’s main ‘holiday book’, taken with me to Tunisia for no better reason than it is set in Tunisia. I chose it, in other words, for precisely the same reason that I took Agatha Christie’s Death on the......more

Goodreads review by Paul on January 18, 2023

Writer Howard Ingham has been commissioned to write a screenplay for a movie that is to take place in Tunisia and moves there to write it. The project, however, is soon abandoned when the director dies, but he decides to stay on to write a book which he provisionally titles ‘The Tremor of Forgery’. G......more

Goodreads review by Nigeyb on September 25, 2022

The Tremor of Forgery (1969) is a classic Patricia Highsmith slow burn, morality tale set in Tunis in 1967 during the time of the Six-Day War. The focus is primarily on two Americans: Howard Ingham, a complacent NYC liberal, and Francis Adams (aka OWL), an unwavering pro-American right winger. This......more

Goodreads review by Tosh on April 07, 2008

There has always been traces of Paul Bowles in Highsmith's fiction - and this book is almost a love letter of sorts to Bowles' world. Without moral overtones one falls into the spell of evil or at least except it on a face value. Very disturbing, even creepy like.......more