{"product_id":"the-horizontal-man-9781598536317","title":"The Horizontal Man","description":"\u003cb\u003eA 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Horizontal Man\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Library of America\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/14\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781598536317\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 318\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 4.80w x 0.90d","brand":"Helen Eustis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36661327003804,"sku":"9781598536317","price":12.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_ababc018-1481-43fc-8a0c-68d479fbf3d0.jpg?v=1603899184","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-horizontal-man-9781598536317","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}