# The Horizontal Man

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- Book: [The Horizontal Man](https://www.bookquiver.com/helen-eustis/the-horizontal-man) ([The Horizontal Man.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/helen-eustis/the-horizontal-man.md))
- Authors: [Helen Eustis](https://www.bookquiver.com/helen-eustis), [Charles Finch](https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-finch)
- Publisher: library_of_america
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-15-9853-458-0
- Published: 2015-09-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Helen Eustis’s The Horizontal Man (1946) won an Edgar Award for best first novel and continues to fascinate as a singular mixture of detection, satire, and psychological portraiture. A poet on the...