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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?

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.

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.

For two years, Walter Stackhouse has been a faithful and supportive husband to his wife, Clara. But she is distant and neurotic, and Walter finds himself harboring gruesome fantasies about her demise. When Clara's dead body turns up at the bottom of a cliff in a manner uncannily resembling the recent death of a woman who was murdered by her husband, Walter finds himself under intense scrutiny.

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.

In Patricia Highsmith's debut novel, we encounter Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno, passengers on the same train. But while Guy is a successful architect in the midst of a divorce, Bruno turns out to be a sadistic psychopath who manipulates Guy into swapping murders with him. As Bruno carries out his twisted plan, Guy is trapped in Highsmith's perilous world - where, under the right circumstances, anybody is capable of murder.

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 remarkable renaissance of Patricia Highsmith continues with the publication of Patricia Highsmith: Selected Novels and Short Stories, featuring the groundbreaking novels Strangers on a Train and The Price of Salt as well as a trove of penetrating short stories. With a critical introduction by Joan Schenkar, situating Highsmith’s classic works within her own tumultuous life, this book provides a useful guide to some of her most dazzlingly seductive writing.

A must-have for the fans of the #1 bestselling author of Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris, a collection of his favorite short fiction from Flannery O'Connor to Tobias Wolff. David Sedaris is an exceptional reader. Alone in his apartment, he reads stories aloud to the point he has them...

Ganz einfach eine wunderschöne Liebesgeschichte. Carol liebt Therese, und Therese liebt Carol. In McCarthys Amerika war sie so skandalös, dass sie 1950 unter Pseudonym erscheinen musste.

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 the freedom of the open road, where their love can blossom. But their newly discovered bliss is shattered when Carol is forced to choose between her child and her lover.

The Buckmaster Gallery is staging another Derwatt exhibition, but now an American collector claims that the expensive masterpiece he bought three years ago is a fake. It is, of course, and he wants to talk to Derwatt, but Derwatt, inconveniently, is dead. Ripley needs the perfect solution to keep his role in the fraud a secret and his reputation clean, but not everyone's nerves are as steady as his. Especially when it comes to murder.

Living on his posh French estate with his elegant heiress wife, Tom Ripley, on the cusp of middle age, is no longer the striving comer of The Talented Mr. Ripley. Having accrued considerable wealth through a long career of crime—forgery, extortion, serial murder—Ripley still finds his appetite unquenched and longs to get back in the game.

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.

In The Boy Who Followed Ripley, Highsmith explores Ripley's bizarrely paternal relationship with a troubled young runaway, whose abduction draws them into Berlin's seamy underworld. More than any other American literary character, Ripley provides "a lens to peer into the sinister machinations of human behavior." (John Freeman, Pittsburgh Gazette).

In this first novel, we are introduced to suave, handsome Tom Ripley: a young striver, newly arrived in the heady world of Manhattan in the 1950s. A product of a broken home, branded a "sissy" by his dismissive Aunt Dottie, Ripley becomes enamored of the moneyed world of his new friend, Dickie Greenleaf. This fondness turns obsessive when Ripley is sent to Italy to bring back his libertine pal, but he grows enraged by Dickie's ambivalent feelings for Marge, a charming American dilettante.

Der amerikanische Hochstapler und Fremdenführer Rydal lernt in Athen das elegante Ehepaar Chester und Colette MacFarland kennen. Die schöne Blonde erinnert ihn an seine unglückliche Jugendliebe, und während Rydal ihr immer mehr verfällt, zieht ihn Chester in einen Strudel des Verbrechens. Als man ihnen auf die Spur kommt, fliehen die drei über Kreta und Marseille bis nach Paris, wo sie ihr Schicksal schließlich einholt. Ein Roman über Eifersucht, Verrat, Mord und die verzweifelte Suche nach Glück.

Ein kleiner Ort an der tunesischen Küste. Ein Hotel-Bungalow. Ein amerikanischer Schriftsteller, der an einem Drehbuch arbeitet...

In den Erzählungen "Der Schneckenforscher" und "Die Heldin" seziert Patricia Highsmith zwei zunächst eher unauffällige Exemplare der Gattung Mensch: Während der Broker Peter Knoppert sich immer mehr in seine Leidenschaft für schleimige Schnecken hineinsteigert, kriecht das Kindermädchen Lucille Smith tiefer und tiefer in das Leben ihrer Arbeitgeber hinein und entwickelt eine ungesunde Hingabe für ihre Schützlinge.

I 1950, som 29-årig, debuterede Patricia Highsmith med denne etiske thriller "Farligt møde", om to mænd, der mødes tilfældigt på et tog og leger med tanken om at bytte mord. En uskyldig leg - indtil det ene mord virkelig bliver udført. Bogen fandt et bredt publikum og blev filmatiseret af Alfred Hitchcock allerede i 1951. Der er blevet refereret, kopieret og parodieret af bogens ide og plot lige siden. Patricia Highsmith vandt stor kunstnerisk anerkendelse for romanen og blev i 1951 nomineret til Edgar Award.