Patricia Highsmith

Carol

Montserrat Morera

Patricia Highsmith's Diaries and Notebooks: The New York Years, 1941-1950

The Talented Mr Ripley

Yetenekli Bay Ripley - 1. Kitap

The Uncollected Stories of Patricia Highsmith

Nothing That Meets the Eye

Twenty-eight short stories reflect the American psyche of the mid-twentieth century and feature such characters as a gigolo-like psychopath, a lonely spinster, and an estranged postal worker.

Nothing that Meets the Eye

O amigo americano

Carol - Tuzun Bedeli

Lesseps

Publié en 1952 par Patricia Highsmith (sous un pseudonyme), ce roman pudique fit cependant scandale à cause de son sujet - l'homosexualité féminine - et aussi parce qu'il a une fin heureuse. Postface de l'auteure, écrite en 1983.

roman

Gálvögyi Judit

Patricia Highsmiths efterord till Carol. Om Carol: Therese Belivet, 19, drömmer om att bli scenograf och jobbar extra över julen i en leksaksaffär. En dag expedierar hon en elegant kvinna. Tillsammans hittar de en julklapp åt kvinnans dotter. Therese får en adress för paketleverans; kvinnans namn är Carol Aird. Therese får impulsen att skicka Carol ett julkort. Det blir början på en passionerad kärleksaffär – men en som också gör att Carol riskerar att förlora vårdnaden av sin dotter. Maken har hyrt en privatdetektiv som förföljer kvinnorna och buggar dem. Patricia Highsmith publicerade Carol 1952 med titeln The Price of Salt och bakom pseudonymen Claire Morgan. Förlagets beskrivning på omslaget löd: »Romanen om en kärlek samhället förbjuder«. Fyrtio år senare trycktes romanen igen, med titeln Carol och i Patricia Highsmiths eget namn.

Om Carol

The Story-teller

The great revival of interest in Patricia Highsmith continues with this work that reveals the chilling reality behind the idyllic facade of American suburban life. The stories collected in Mermaids on the Golf Course are among Highsmith's most mature, psychologically penetrating works. As in the title story, in which a man's brush with death endows his everyday desires with tragic consequences, the warm familiarities of middle-class life become the eerie setting for Highsmith's chilling portrayals of violence, secrecy, and madness.

Mermaids on the Golf Course: Stories

Ocak AyInIn Iki Yüzü

"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 her prolific body of fiction. In her more than twenty novels, psychopaths lie in wait amid the milieu of the mundane, in the neighbor clipping the hedges or the spouse asleep next to you at night. Now, Norton continues the revival of this noir genius with another of her lost masterpieces: a later work from 1983, People Who Knock on the Door, is a tale about blind faith and the slippery notion of justice that lies beneath the peculiarly American veneer of righteousness. This novel, out of print for years, again attests to Highsmith's reputation as "the poet of apprehension" (Graham Greene).

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