In A Game for the Living threads of sexual jealousy and guilt are shot through with all Patricia Highsmith's uncanny talent for the unexpected.
Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and moved to New York when she was six. In her senior year, she edited the college magazine, having decided at the age of sixteen to become a writer. Her first novel, Strangers on a Train (1950), was made into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. The Talented Mr Ripley (1955), introduced the fascinating anti-hero Tom Ripley, and was made into an Oscar-winning film in 1999 by Anthony Minghella. Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland, in February 1995. Her last novel, Small g: A Summer Idyll, was published posthumously, the same year.
The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer - The TimesI love Highsmith so much . . . What a revelation her writing isHighsmith writes about men like a spider writing about flies - The ObserverNo one has created psychological suspense more densely and deliciously satisfying - VogueFor eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there's no one like Patricia Highsmith - Time
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