{"product_id":"the-horizontal-man-9781598536317","title":"The Horizontal Man","description":"\u003cb\u003eA 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 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.","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"STANDARD","offer_id":62344913027459,"sku":"9781598536317","price":14.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/8456\/3587\/files\/9781598536317.jpg?v=1786254341","url":"https:\/\/shopcomics.eu\/products\/the-horizontal-man-9781598536317","provider":"Shop Comics EU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}