The Summer Book is my vote, only one I never read. And Finland! No book set there before, nor one with a grandmother. (An overlooked or sentimentalized figure, rarely a real person. Ripley is fashionable evil or amorality, psychopathology at Highsmith’s great noir height. But never wanted to read again. I much prefer Clyde in Dreiser’s American Tragedy.
The Summer Book is my vote, only one I never read. And Finland! No book set there before, nor one with a grandmother. (An overlooked or sentimentalized figure, rarely a real person. Ripley is fashionable evil or amorality, psychopathology at Highsmith’s great noir height. But never wanted to read again. I much prefer Clyde in Dreiser’s American Tragedy.