検索キーワード： 著者 "Patricia Highsmith" すべてのカテゴリー

Unbeschwerte Dolce Vita: Das ist das Leben, von dem Tom Ripley in seinem New Yorker Kellerloch träumt - und das sein Schulfreund Dickie Greenleaf führt. Dickies Vater, ein reicher Reeder, bittet Tom, nach Italien zu fahren und seinen "verlorenen Sohn" nach Amerika zurückzuholen: ein Traumauftrag für einen armen Nobody wie Tom. Noch ahnt niemand, wie weit Ripley gehen wird, um für immer zu Dickies Welt zu gehören.

Ein neues "Tierleben", verfaßt nicht von Brehm, sondern von Highsmith, von Beruf subtile Analytikerin des menschlichen Mordes, privat faszinierte Schneckenforscherin und zärtliche Katzenfreundin. Huhn, Katze, Elefant, Ratte und Küchenschabe rächen sich fürchterlich, einfallsreich und unverhofft am Menschen - als ob sie auch Menschen wären.

Everett Taylor Cheever schreibt Romane. Im Kopf, nicht auf Papier. Warum sie niederschreiben, wenn sie doch in seinem Gedächtnis schon fertig, überarbeitet und redigiert sind? Viel zu langweilig. Doch was soll Everett Junior sagen, wenn sie ihn in der Schule fragen, was sein Papa so macht?

Als die Flotte im Hafen von Mobile lag, war Geraldine gerade achtzehn. Sie war hübsch, lebhaft und glaubte dem erstbesten Matrosen, dass er sie liebe und sie heiraten wolle...

The Greatest Mysteries of All Time, Volume 5 is an exciting addition to this series, featuring the finest short-story mystery fiction by the most acclaimed writers, past and present. This unique collection of master writers, including such notables as Isaac Asimov, Ogden Nash, and Mickey Spillane, edited by multi-award-winning mystery connoisseur Otto Penzler, is a delightful mixture of mystery and suspense.

In This Sweet Sickness, David Kelsey has an unyielding conviction that life will turn out all right for him; he just has to fix "the situation" of being in love with a married woman. Obsessed with Annabelle and the life he has imagined for them, David prepares to win her over, whatever it takes. In this riveting tale of a deluded loner, Highsmith reveals her uncanny ability to draw out the secret obsessions that overwhelm the human heart.

In A Suspension of Mercy, a masterpiece of noir fantasy, Highsmith revels in eliciting the unsettling psychological forces that lurk beneath the surface of everyday contemporary life.

Falsely convicted of fraud, the easygoing but naive Philip Carter is sentenced to six lonely, drug-ravaged years in prison. Upon his release, Carter is a more suspicious and violent man. For those around him, earning back his trust can mean the difference between life and death.

The great revival of interest in Patricia Highsmith continues with the publication of a novel that will give dog owners nightmares for years to come. With an eerie simplicity of style, Highsmith turns our next-door neighbors into sadistic psychopaths, lying in wait among white picket fences and manicured lawns. In A Dog's Ransom, Highsmith blends savage humor with brilliant social satire in this dark tale of a high-minded criminal who hits a wealthy Manhattan couple where it hurts the most.

Melinda Van Allen is beautiful, headstrong and sexy. Unfortunately for Vic Van Allen, she is his wife. Their love has soured, and Melinda takes pleasure in flaunting her many affairs to her husband. When one of her lovers is murdered, Vic hints to her latest conquest that he was responsible. As rumours spread about Vic's vicious streak, fiction and reality start to converge. It's only a matter of time before Vic really does have blood on his hands.

David Kelsey has an invincible conviction that life is going to work out just as he has planned it - if he can just fix 'the situation'. His one true love, the brilliant, beautiful Annabelle, has married another man. But that doesn't mean they can't still be friends. And even though she is pregnant with her husband Gerald's baby, that surely doesn't mean she won't one day get back together with David. She still loves him, of that he is certain. David is sure she'll take him back and, under an alias, is setting up a wonderful home for the two of them in a town close by.

In Deep Water, set in the small town of Little Wesley, Vic and Melinda Meller's loveless marriage is held together only by a precarious arrangement whereby in order to avoid the messiness of divorce, Melinda is allowed to take any number of lovers as long as she does not desert her family. Eventually, Vic tries to win her back by asserting himself through a tall tale of murder - one that soon comes true.

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 o Liliana Cavani, entre otros), es el protagonista de esta extraordinaria novela de Patricia Highsmith. Nada al principio une a Jonathan Trevanny con Tom Ripley. Jonathan es un hombre honesto y pobre que lleva una existencia apacible y gris, junto a su mujer y su hijo. ¿Por qué Tom Ripley le pide que asesine a dos mafiosos?

En su lujosa finca cerca de París, Tom Ripley lleva una existencia apacible, cuidando el jardín, pintando, estudiando francés y escuchando música. Un día le telefonean de Londres sus socios de la Buckmaster Gallery, marchantes de Derwatt, un misterioso pintor que se oculta en un ignorado rincón de México mientras el precio de sus cuadros sube vertiginosamente. Sin embargo, un coleccionista americano sospecha que le han vendido un cuadro de Derwatt falsificado, por lo que urge la aparición del pintor para disipar sospechas... pero por desgracia Derwatt ha muerto.

Claire Morgan, una autora desconocida y que eligió permanecer en el más absoluto anonimato, publicó en 1952 una novela, El precio de la sal, notablemente audaz para la época. Los críticos trataron el libro con una mezcla de desconcierto y respeto, pero el éxito de público fue inmediato, y se vendieron más de un millón de ejemplares de la edición de bolsillo. La novela no volvió a editarse, y ahora reaparece con el título Carol, que originalmente le había dado su autora, y firmada por ésta con su verdadero nombre.

Neste segundo volume da série de cinco livros que narra a trajetória de um dos sociopatas mais conhecidos da ficção, Tom Ripley está morando em uma confortável propriedade no Sul da França ao lado da esposa, Heloise, a jovem herdeira de uma fortuna. Além de circular pelo jet set europeu e colher os frutos do roubo da identidade de Dickie Greenleaf, Tom administra um esquema de falsificação de quadros.

Vic e Melinda estão longe de ser um casal feliz―seu casamento é mantido por um acordo nada convencional: Melinda pode ter quantos amantes quiser contanto que não arraste os dois e a filha para o caos de um divórcio. Tudo parece bem, mas, com o passar do tempo, Vic começa a se incomodar com os homens escolhidos pela esposa e adota uma estratégia inusitada para afugentá-los, assumindo a autoria do assassinato de um deles.

Neste primeiro volume da série de cinco livros que narra sua trajetória, ele tenta se estabelecer em Manhattan após fugir de seu lar mais do que disfuncional. Bom de lábia, exímio imitador e piadista, praticante de furtos e pequenos golpes, Tom vê sua sorte mudar ao receber uma proposta inusitada. Ele deve ir a uma aldeia na Itália e convencer Dickie Greenleaf, o filho de um rico industrial, a voltar para casa e assumir os negócios da família. O problema é que o vigarista é seduzido pelo estilo de vida refinado do playboy.