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Patricia Highsmith

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A Game for the Living is a psychological thriller novel by Patricia Highsmith.

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Small g: a Summer Idyll is the final novel by American writer Patricia Highsmith before her death in 1995; it was published posthumously.

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Three of them are waiting. Rydal Keener is waiting for something exciting to happen in his grubby little Athens hotel. At forty-odd, Chester MacFarland has been waiting much longer, expecting his life of stock manipu­lation and fraud to catch up with him. And Colette, Chester’s wife, is waiting for something …

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When Ralph Linderman returns a stranger’s wallet he found during a morning stroll through Greenwich Village, he is entirely unprepared for the complex maze of sexual obsession and disturbing psychological intrigue he is about to be drawn into. Patricia Highsmith, author of The Tremor of Forgery, Strangers on a Train, …

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"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 …

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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.

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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.