Patricia Highsmith

Sullo sfondo di una colossale truffa ambientata nel mondo del collezionismo d'arte, si fronteggiano due uomini: Tom, irriverente viveur, sempre pronto a ideare nuove strategie per arricchirsi, e Bernard, pittore votato alla coscienza tragica della propria debolezza, il quale accetta la parte di esecutore della truffa e dipinge alcuni falsi quadri d'autore. La scoperta casuale dell'inganno dà il via non soltanto agli ineluttabili scenari del crimine,...

Nel terzo romanzo del ciclo di Tom Ripley – da cui Wim Wenders ha tratto l'omonimo film con Dennis Hopper e John Malkovich – ritroviamo il personaggio più amato di Patricia Highsmith al suo meglio. Spietato e ironico, Tom Ripley detesta gli omicidi. A meno che non siano assolutamente necessari.

"L'omicida psicopatico Tom Ripley va annoverato tra i maggiori contributi alla letteratura mondiale. Da applauso."
Camilla...

Master of tension Patricia Highsmith is best known for her novels of ever-increasing suspense, but she is equally adept at the short story, where "she is after the quick kill rather than the slow encirclement of the reader." Eleven is Highsmith's first collection of short stories-dark masterpieces of obsession and foreboding, violence and instability (Graham Greene, from the foreword). In these pages, naturalists meet gruesome ends and unhinged heroes...

Patricia Highsmith reflexiona sobre el arte de escribir, cuenta cómo abordó algunas de sus intrigas más conocidas. "El presente libro no es un manual de instrucciones. Es imposible explicar cómo se escribe un buen libro, es decir, un libro que sea ameno. Pero esto es lo que hace que la profesión de escritor sea animada y apasionante: la constante posibilidad de fracasar. Así pues hablaré de mis fracasos tanto como de mis éxitos, porque puede...

"Just in time for the centennial celebration of groundbreaking noir fiction writer Patricia Highsmith comes a reissue of her propulsive, engrossing debut, Strangers on a Train, with a new introduction by best-selling author Paula Hawkins. Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno are passengers on the same train. Haines is a successful architect in the midst of a divorce, Bruno a mysterious smooth-talker with a sadistic proposal: he'll murder Haines's...

From the Publisher: "I have long had a theory that Nabokov knew The Price of Salt and modeled the climactic cross-country car chase in Lolita on Therese and Carol's frenzied bid for freedom," writes Terry Castle in The New Republic about this novel, arguably Patricia Highsmith's finest, first published in 1952 under the pseudonym Clare Morgan. Soon to be a new film, The Price of Salt tells the riveting story of Therese Belivet, a stage designer trapped...

"Deep Water" is set in the small town of Little Wesley. Vic and Melinda's loveless marriage is held together only by Melinda's extramarital affairs. Eventually, Vic tries to win her back by asserting himself through a tall tale of murder--one that soon comes true

Set in Greenwich Village, Found in the Street is a powerful novel of sexual obsession and the complexity of desire. Elsie Taylor drifts into New York City looking for good times and opportunities. Ralph Linderman, a failed inventor who walks the streets at dawn with a dog named God, sees her as oblivious to, and endangered by, the corruption he sees everywhere around him.