Seventeen menacing spine-chillers full of Patricia Highsmith's trademark simmering malice.
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.
These little tales are tremendous fun, glorious hand grenades lobbed at the reader by a gleeful, cackling Patricia Highsmith - Dan RhodesThese little tales are tremendous fun, glorious hand grenades lobbed at the reader by a gleeful, cackling Patricia Highsmith - Dan RhodesFor eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there's no one like Patricia Highsmith - TimeFor eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there's no one like Patricia Highsmith - TimeOne of our greatest modernist writers - Gore VidalOne of our greatest modernist writers - Gore Vidal[Highsmith's] characters are irrational, and they leap to life in their very lack of reason; suddenly we realize how unbelievably rational most fictional characters are . . . Highsmith is the poet of apprehension rather than fear - Graham Greene[Highsmith's] characters are irrational, and they leap to life in their very lack of reason; suddenly we realize how unbelievably rational most fictional characters are . . . Highsmith is the poet of apprehension rather than fear - Graham Greene
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