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      The Horizontal Man

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      A poet 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 ...

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      Product ID:9781598536317
      Product Form:Paperback / softback
      Country of Manufacture:US
      Title:The Horizontal Man
      Authors:Author: Charles Finch, Helen Eustis
      Page Count:318
      Subjects:Crime and mystery fiction, Crime & mystery
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      A poet 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 college, an English department 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 deliberately modernistic edge - a troubling sense of the mental chaos lurking just beneath the civilized surfaces of her academic setting.
      Imprint Name:The Library of America
      Publisher Name:The Library of America
      Country of Publication:GB
      Publishing Date:2020-07-14

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      Weight310 g
      Dimensions124 × 201 × 21 mm