A Game for the Living (Highsmith, Patricia)
Another winner from this little-known genius: Yep -- it's another fine piece of work from Patricia Highsmith, who was, I'm becoming increasingly convinced, one of the 20th century's most accomplished and important writers. I wonder how long it will take [... more]
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Extranos en un tren (Compactos Anagrama) (Spanish Edition)
Author: Patricia Highsmith Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9788433920157 Edition: Octava ISBN: 8433920154 Number Of Pages: 284 Publication Date: 2002-05-15 [... more]
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The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley's ...
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Ripley Under Water
The Talented Ms. Highsmith: In her fifth and what was to be her final installment in the novels about Tom Ripley, RIPLEY UNDER WATER, Patricia Highsmith has written a suspenseful page-turner that both shocks and entertains the reader. The talented Mr. [... more]
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Nothing That Meets the Eye: The Uncollected Stories of ...
Really high on Highsmith: She's baaack! A second anthology of Patricia Highsmith's short fiction, this time featuring stories that have not been published until now. Unlike the first collection of her short fiction (where many of the stories struck me as [... more]
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Deep Water
Never better motives for becoming a murderer: Another brilliant story of bottled up emotions, of a protagonist who seems to be free of passion, seemingly has no sexual urges, takes insult with apparent lack of interest, and yet slowly builds up the [... more]
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Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s: The Killer ...
Amazon.com Review: The best American crime novels deserve their place in the pantheon of American literature, but they hold special interest for cinema enthusiasts, who can both compare them to the movies they became and can roll imaginary films of the [... more]
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Ripley Under Ground
Under Ground, Slightly Over Done: "Ripley Under Ground" is the second novel in the Ripley series by the talented Patricia Highsmith. In the first novel, readers were introduced to Tom Ripley - a poor player who wishes for a better life and [... more]
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The Two Faces of January (Highsmith, Patricia)
one of the best by Highsmith: If you are already a Patricia Highsmith fan, I would highly recommend this book next. While the book starts out somewhat slowly, I think this pacing helps set the overall mood of the book and allows the reader to settle into [... more]
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The Cry of the Owl (Highsmith, Patricia)
Didn't really live up to its promise: This is the first Patricia Highsmith novel I've read, and all things considered I probably should have started with one of her more popular titles. I did enjoy the book, but thought the action fizzled out a bit about [... more]
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The Tremor of Forgery (Highsmith, Patricia)
Highsmith at her best: Sometime after Patricia Highsmith's death in 1995, my local bookstore moved her books from the "Mystery & Thriller" section to the more general "Fiction" section, a final irony for a writer who had been [... more]
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Those Who Walk Away (Highsmith, Patricia)
Done Just Right: "Those Who Walk Away" is a concise, fast reading novel of low-keyed suspense. The background is an appropriately gloomy wintertime Venice. Ray, the key character, has lost his wife to suicide. Ed is the unforgiving, not to [... more]
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