Patricia Highsmith - Böcker

Om hunden kan sägas vara människans bästa vän, är katten tveklöst författarens. Och läsarnas! Kanske är det inte så konstigt: älskad och gåtfull utgör den inte bara ett fantastiskt sällskap, utan är också en enastående karaktär att bygga en histor...

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»Patricia Highsmiths Carol är en utsökt febrig kärlekshistoria med en perfekt inledningsscen bland varuhusets julglitter.« Vald till en av 2016 års bästa böcker | PHILIP TEIR, DN Therese Belivet, 19, drömmer om att bli scenograf och jobbar extra i...

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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY PAULA HAWKINS, AUTHOR OF GIRL ON A TRAIN "Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis! Catch?" From this mom...

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"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, arguabl...

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'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' The Times 'Ripley, amoral, hedonistic and charming, is a genuinely original creation' Daily Telegraph Tom Ripley is struggling to stay one step ahead of his creditors and the law, when an unexpe...

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Främlingar på ett tåg - Snart som ny storfilm av teamet bakom Gone Girl : David Fincher, Ben Affleck & Gillian Flynn! »Highsmith skapar en infernalisk dramatik. Även om vi vet hur det slutar håller hon läsaren i ett järngrepp.« MAGNUS ERIKSSON...

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**AS SEEN ON WRITE AROUND THE WORLD WITH RICHARD E GRANT** 'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' The Times 'Ripley, amoral, hedonistic and charming, is a genuinely original creation' Daily Telegraph 'He is using you for what yo...

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Named by The Times as the all-time number one crime writer, Patricia Highsmith was an author who broke new ground and defied genre clichs with novels such as The Talented Mr Ripley and Strangers on a Train. In the classic creative writing guide Pl...

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Två mästerliga spänningsromaner om åtrå och begär i efterlängtad nyutgåva Människors mörker: två romaner om besatthet samlar två av Patricia Highsmiths klassiska sextiotalsromaner i en volym. I Mord för Annabelle [1960] är den unga, begåvade forsk...

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WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY VAL McDERMID Therese is just an ordinary sales assistant working in a New York department store when a beautiful, alluring woman in her thirties walks up to her counter. Standing there, Therese is wholly unprepared for the f...

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Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting materia...

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Tom Ripley is quietly living a life of luxury at his chateau at Villeperce, and, as ever, is keeping one step ahead of the law - he has, after all, a past that would not bear too much close scrutiny...The fifth novel featuring the protagonist Tom ...

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»Den största kriminalförfattaren av alla.« | The Times »Patricia Highsmiths romaner är ojämförligt olycksbådande.« | The New Yorker Två män möts på Atens vindlande bakgator. Chester MacFarlane är en bedragare med otaliga falska identiteter, men ha...

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A chance encounter between two lonely women leads to a passionate romance in this lesbian cult classic. Therese, a struggling young sales clerk, and Carol, a homemaker in the midst of a bitter divorce, abandon their oppressive daily routines for t...

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BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY, CAROL AND STRANGERS ON A TRAIN Completed just months before Patricia Highsmith's death in 1995, Small g explores the labyrinthine intricacies of passion, sexuality, and jealousy in a charmi...

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The psychologists would call it folie a deux... 'Bruno slammed his palms together. 'Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis! Catch?...

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It promises to be one of the literary highlights of 2021 - publication of the diaries of Patricia Highsmith, one of the most conflicted, fascinating novelists of the 20th century' Edward Helmore, Guardian Patricia Highsmith's first novel was picke...

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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 Hain...

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BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY AND STRANGERS ON A TRAIN INTRODUCED BY DENISE MINA 'Highsmith is a giant of the genre. The original, the best, the gloriously twisted Queen of Suspense' MARK BILLINGHAM 'She kind o...

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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING VIGGO MORTENSON AND KIRSTEN DUNST By the bestselling author of The Talented Mr Ripley, Carol and Strangers on a Train. 'The original, the best, the gloriously twisted Queen of Suspense' MARK BILLINGHAM...

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WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY VAL McDERMID Therese is just an ordinary sales assistant working in a New York department store when a beautiful, alluring woman in her thirties walks up to her counter. Standing there, Therese is wholly unprepared for the f...

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Mit 'The Talented Mr. Ripley' (1955) hat Patricia Highsmith dem Kriminalroman neue Dimensionen erschlossen: Im Mittelpunkt steht nicht der Detektiv, sondern der zweifache Mörder, aus dessen Sicht die Geschichte erzählt wird. Der Roman, der bei Mil...

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'Marvellously, insanely readable... Highsmith has done it again' The Times "There's no such thing as a perfect murder... That's just a parlor game, trying to dream one up." Tom Ripley is enjoying his wealthy lifestyle...

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CLASSIC THRILLER BEHIND THE HITCHCOCK FILM AND HIGHSMITH'S FIRST NOVEL By the bestselling author of The Talented Mr Ripley and Carol 'Her books have stylistic texture, psychological depth, mesmeric readability' SUNDAY TIMES 'Th...

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Little Tales of Misogyny is Highsmith's legendary, cultish short-story collection. With an eerie simplicity of style, Highsmith turns our next-door neighbours into sadistic psychopaths, lying in wait among white picket fences and manicured la...

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Boken bakom den hyllade storfilmen Carol med Cate Blanchett och Rooney Mara - Vald till en av Årets bästa böcker i DN: »En utsökt febrig kärlekshistoria med en perfekt inledningsscen bland varuhusets julglitter.« »En mästerlig skildring av utsatt ...

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Now a major film starring Oscar-winner Ben Affleck and Golden Globe-nominee Ana de Armas. 'If you read crime stories at all or perhaps especially if you don't, you should read Deep Water' SUNDAY TIMES 'If I really don't li...

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Tom Ripley has a lovely house in the French countryside, a beautiful and very rich wife, and an art collection worthy of a connoisseur. But this gracious life has not come easily; it is based on murder, forgery, and smuggling, and could topple at ...

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When a troubled young runaway arrives on Tom Ripley's French estate, he is drawn into a world he thought he'd left behind: the seedy underworld of Berlin, involving kidnapping plots, lies and deception. Ripley becomes the boy's prot...

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A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MATT DAMON, JUDE LAW AND GWYNETH PALTROW One of the BBC's 100 Novels that shaped our world. 'An outstanding thriller which has deservedly become a classic' THE TIMES 'Ripley - amoral, hedonistic ...

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