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[Literature] Highsmith, Patricia. The Tremor of Forgery. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1969. First edition. Original unclipped dust jacket with jacket design by Paul Bacon. Stated "First Edition" on copyright page. Ex-library copy from Sacramento Public Library with stamps and library pocket. First edition of Highsmith's twelfth novel, widely regarded by critics and scholars as one of her most psychologically sophisticated works. The Tremor of Forgery follows American writer Howard Ingham as he travels to Tunisia and becomes increasingly dislocated from his moral compass. The existential thriller reflects Highsmith's enduring preoccupation with identity, alienation, and ethical ambiguity. Though less overtly queer than The Price of Salt or the Ripley novels, the book's central exploration of repression, detachment, and shifting loyalties has made it a subject of enduring interest to queer theorists, who read the protagonist's emotional sterility and ambiguous sexual encounters as coded reflections of queer estrangement. The novel's North African setting provides a backdrop for examining Cold War-era American masculinity abroad and the psychological cost of dislocation. Ingham's growing moral dissociation, triggered by both artistic failure and a possibly suppressed homosexual encounter, invites comparison with Highsmith's own life as a closeted lesbian expatriate, then living in Europe. First published during the summer of 1969, just weeks after the Stonewall uprising, the novel captures a broader cultural unease with fixed identities and normative morality. Jacket with several tape pieces on flaps and rear panel. Font endpapers with tape stains, discard stamps, price stickers, and library pocket present. Pages otherwise clean and binding solid. Very good in good dust jacket. A key mid-career work from Highsmith, whose portrayals of deviance, duplicity, and desire have secured her legacy not only as a master of psychological fiction but also as a queer literary icon of the twentieth century.
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