Patricia Highsmith: 68 books
by Patricia Highsmith
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2001
"Highsmith's novels are peerlessly disturbing...bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night."—The New Yorker
With the savage humor of Evelyn Waugh and the macabre sensibility of Edgar Allan Poe, Patricia Highsmith brought a distinct twentieth-century acuteness to...
by Patricia Highsmith
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2008
"Ripley is an unmistakable descendant of Gatsby, that 'penniless young man without a past' who will stop at nothing."—Frank Rich
Now part of American film and literary lore, Tom Ripley, "a bisexual psychopath and art forger who murders without remorse when his comforts are...
by Patricia Highsmith
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Fabulous, in all senses of that word . . . combining the best features of the suspense genre with the best of existential fiction-a thrilled reflection.”-Paul Theroux
Elsie Tyler turns heads wherever she goes. After leaving her hometown upstate for Greenwich Village, the charming young...
by Patricia Highsmith
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 10, 2014
En El talento de Mr. Ripley, la más célebre novela de Patricia Highsmith, aparece su más fascinante personaje: el inquietante y amoral Tom Ripley, figura prototípica de un género que Highsmith inventó, que se sitúa entre la novela policíaca y la novela negra, entre Graham Greene y Raymond...
by Patricia Highsmith
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 25, 2017
El personaje de Tom Ripley, que ha fascinado a tantos lectores, y también a tantos de los mejores cineastas (René Clément, Wim Wenders, Anthony Minghella, Liliana Cavani, entre otros), es el protagonista de esta extraordinaria novela de Patricia Highsmith. Nada al principio une a Jonathan Trevanny...
by Patricia Highsmith
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
Ripley is back. This new publication of Patricia Highsmith's classic inaugurates the complete Ripley series at Norton.
Since his debut in 1955, Tom Ripley has evolved into the ultimate bad boy sociopath, influencing countless novelists and filmmakers. In this first novel, we are introduced...
The Killing Spirit
An Anthology of Murder of Hire
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1998
Chilling works of literary noir: “Hopler has tracked down a remarkable number of hit-man stories by a remarkable collection of authors.” —New York Press
This unique collection of writings about hired killers includes stories, screenplays, and even poems—plus an appendix listing hit-man...
by Patricia Highsmith
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
The award-winning “classic psychological thriller” by the author of Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley (USA Today).
In a grubby Athens hotel, Rydal Keener is bored and killing time with petty scams. But when he runs into another American, Chester MacFarland, dragging a man’s...
by Patricia Highsmith
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
In a small Pennsylvania town, Robert Forrester is recuperating from a nasty divorce and a bout of psychological trouble. One evening, while driving home, he sees a pretty young woman framed by her bright kitchen window. Soon, he can’t keep himself away. But when Robert is inevitably discovered, obsession...
by Patricia Highsmith
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Edith è una donna apparentemente forte, allegra e sorridente, ma qualcosa di oscuro si annida dentro di lei. Cerca di non dare troppo peso a quei momenti di buio che a volte l’assalgono senza una ragione precisa, e con questa serenità affronta anche il divorzio dal marito. Edith, per sfuggire...
by Patricia Highsmith
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Patricia Highsmith tiene un talento especial que eleva su narrativa por encima de las divisiones convencionales, combinando tramas insólitas con el estudio psicológico de los personajes. Libres de maniqueísmo y de condicionamientos morales, el inquietante clima de sus novelas se halla permeado...
by Patricia Highsmith
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 10, 2014
En El diario de Edith, Patricia Highsmith dibuja la trayectoria de un desmoronamiento personal que va cobrando impulso para acabar precipitándose de forma vertiginosa en medio de la trivial normalidad. En una pequeña casita de Pennsylvania, que comparte con el babeante tío George y su malvado...
by Patricia Highsmith
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Tom Ripley, el inquietante protagonista de El talento de Mr. Ripley, La máscara de Ripley y El amigo americano, se encuentra un día a un extraño adolescente que no quiere separarse de él: el joven Frank Pierson, hijo de un multimillonario, que se siente acosado por un espantoso secreto. Sólo...
by Patricia Highsmith
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Amena, inquietante, El hechizo de Elsie es una obra maestra del suspense y un análisis del lado oscuro del deseo y del enfrentamiento entre las fuerzas ultraconservadoras y las liberales en la sociedad norteamericana. El escenario de la narración es el Greenwich Village de Nueva York, captado aquí...