Patricia Highsmith

Il talento di Mr. Ripley è un romanzo del 1955 di Patricia Highsmith, appartenente al genere del Thriller psicologico. In questo romanzo, l'autrice introduce per la prima volta la figura di Tom Ripley che tornerà in altri quattro libri Il sepolto vivo, L'amico americano, Il ragazzo di Tom Ripley e Ripley sott'acqua.

Guy Haines e Charles Anthony Bruno si trovano per caso a viaggiare nellostesso vagone di un treno diretto verso sud. Per vincere la noia del viaggiocominciano a parlare e a raccontarsi vicende sempre più personali. E così idue viaggiatori scoprono di vivere due situazioni assai simili. Guy vuoledivorziare dalla moglie …

The Price of Salt is a 1952 romance novel by Patricia Highsmith, first published under the pseudonym Claire Morgan. The author – known as a suspense writer based on her one earlier novel, Strangers on a Train – used a pseudonym due to the story's lesbian content. Its relatively happy ending was unprecedented in gay …

Connoisseur of art, harpsichord aficionado, gardener extraordinaire, and genius of improvisational murder, the inimitable Tom Ripley finds his complacency shaken when he is scorned at a posh gala. While an ordinary psychopath might repay the insult with some mild act of retribution, what Ripley has in mind is far more …

Il sepolto vivo è un romanzo del 1970 di Patricia Highsmith, che appartiene al genere del thriller psicologico; si tratta del secondo libro del ciclo che ha come protagonista Tom Ripley.

Tom Ripley passes his leisured days at his French country estate tending the dahlias, practicing the harpsichord, and enjoying the company of his lovely wife, Heloise. Never mind the bloodstains on the basement floor.But some new neighbors have moved to Villeperce: the Pritchards, just arrived from America. they are a …

"Ripley is an unmistakable descendant of Gatsby, that 'penniless young man without a past' who will stop at nothing."―Frank Rich Now part of American film and literary lore, Tom Ripley, "a bisexual psychopath and art forger who murders without remorse when his comforts are threatened" (New York Times Book Review), was …

Il talento di Mr. Ripley è un romanzo del 1955 di Patricia Highsmith, appartenente al genere del Thriller psicologico. In questo romanzo, l'autrice introduce per la prima volta la figura di Tom Ripley che tornerà in altri quattro libri Il sepolto vivo, L'amico americano, Il ragazzo di Tom Ripley e Ripley sott'acqua.

The Cry of the Owl is a psychological thriller novel by Patricia Highsmith. It was first published in the US in 1962 by Harper & Row and in the UK by Heinemann the following year. The book tells the story of Robert Forester who, following a painful divorce, develops an obsession with the seemingly happy, …

Deep Water is a psychological thriller novel by Patricia Highsmith, first published in 1957 by Harper & Brothers. It is Highsmith's fifth published novel, the working title was The Dog in the Manger. It was brought back into print in the US in 2003 by W. W. Norton & Company.