# The Cry of the Owl

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- Book: [The Cry of the Owl](https://www.bookquiver.com/patricia-highsmith/the-cry-of-the-owl) ([The Cry of the Owl.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/patricia-highsmith/the-cry-of-the-owl.md))
- Authors: [Claire Morgan](https://www.bookquiver.com/patricia-highsmith)
- Publisher: vintage_classics
- ISBN: 978-17-8487-680-7
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2021-04-15
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Every watcher becomes the watched When Robert becomes fixated on a woman he glimpses through her window, he imagines he’s found peace - until she notices him, and their lives entwine in a spiral of suspicion and death. Highsmith’s The Cry of the Owl is a study in paranoia and fate, told with chilling precision. Desire, guilt and moral decay blur into one another until innocence itself feels like a crime. ‘Extraordinary … one of her finest novels’ Guardian ‘A superb portrait of obsession and its fallout’ Sunday Times