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The Horizontal Man
Library of America
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9781598536317
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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.
- | Author: Helen Eustis
- | Publisher: Library of America
- | Publication Date: July 14, 2020
- | Number of Pages: 318 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1598536311
- | ISBN-13: 9781598536317
- Author:
- Helen Eustis
- Publisher:
- Library of America
- Publication Date:
- July 14, 2020
- Number of pages:
- 318 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1598536311
- ISBN-13:
- 9781598536317