A review by hpuphd
The Blunderer by Patricia Highsmith

4.0

Patricia Highsmith’s third novel (1954), an engaging book about a credulous man whose innocent behavior and injudicious comments gradually endanger him. Like Highsmith’s previous novel The Price of Salt or Carol, this book questions received notions of the Fifties, this time about social fairness and justice rather than sexual norms. Highsmith’s development draws a reader in.