The cry of the owl
By: Patricia Highsmith.
Edition: 1st Atlantic Monthly Press ed.
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press; Distributed by Little, Brown
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York; [Boston, Mass.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780871132901
Subjects: Voyeurism -- Fiction; Pennsylvania -- Fiction
Description: This "extraordinary story" (Julian Symons) begins with an act of naive voyeurism. Robert Forester, a depressed buy fundamentally decent man, liked to watch Jenny through her kitchen window -- a harmless palliative, as he saw it, to his lonely life and failed marriage. As he is drawn into her life, however, the recriminations of his simple pleasure shatter the deceptive calm of this small Pennsylvania town. With striking clarity and horrible inevitability, Forester is caught up in a series of deaths in which he is the innocent bystander, presumed guilty.