A review by leasttorque
The Tremor of Forgery by Patricia Highsmith

5.0

This novel was a seriously slow burn, slow to the extent that I almost abandoned it. Fortunately I hung in and was entranced as it took a turn into perhaps the most suspenseful novel I’ve ever read. I kept thinking of the title of a book of essays, “prisons we choose to live inside”. The inner dialog of the protagonist just fascinated me as he pondered and rambled across a varied terrain of moral fluidity, interpersonal complexities, religion, foreign influences, human worth, dependence, profession, and alienation. And of course there was the relationship of the author to the fiction he produces.