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The Horizontal Man by Helen Eustis, Charles Finch
- The Horizontal Man
- Helen Eustis, Charles Finch
- Page: 318
- Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
- ISBN: 9781598536317
- Publisher: Library of America
Downloading ebooks from amazon for free The Horizontal Man
Overview
A philandering professor on the faculty of an Ivy League school is found murdered, setting off ripple effects of anxiety, suspicion, and panic in this Edgar Award-winning classic from 1946. The Horizontal Man was Helen Eustis's only crime novel, and she won an Edgar Award for it, combining a wildly disparate set of elements into an enduringly fascinating work. In its way it is a classical whodunit that stands comparison with old-school practitioners such as Agatha Christie or Dorothy Sayers. This mystery transpires in the rarefied precincts of the English department of a venerable New England college, one very much of the restless postwar moment, echoing with references to Freud and Kafka. Eustis finds comedy high and low in a cavalcade of characters bursting at the seams with repressed sexual longings and simmering malice. Beyond the satire, she stirs up—with a narrative whose multiple viewpoints give the book a striking modernistic edge—a troubling sense of the mental chaos lurking just beneath the civilized surfaces of her academic setting.
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