Patricia Highsmith

"Miss Highsmith è una crime novelist i cui libri possono essere riletti molte volte. Sono pochi gli autori di cui si può dire altrettanto. È una scrittrice che ha creato un proprio mondo - un mondo claustrofobico e irrazionale nel quale ogni volta entriamo con una sensazione di pericolo personale, con il capo mezzo girato all'indietro, persino con una certa riluttanza, giacché quelli che stiamo per sperimentare sono piaceri crudeli, finché, più...

Napoli, anni cinquanta. Il giovane e spiantato Tom Ripley sbarca da New York in missione per conto del ricco Mr. Greenleaf. Deve convincere il figlio di lui, Dickie, a ritornare in America. Ma l'incontro con Dickie, un ragazzo bellissimo che dalla vita ha avuto tutto, fa nascere un'idea nella mente di Tom: non potrebbe sostituirsi a lui e vivere una vita senza problemi? È l'inizio di un'avventura insieme terribile e coinvolgente, in cui Patricia...

Nel terzo romanzo del ciclo di Tom Ripley – da cui Wim Wenders ha tratto l'omonimo film con Dennis Hopper e John Malkovich – ritroviamo il personaggio più amato di Patricia Highsmith al suo meglio. Spietato e ironico, Tom Ripley detesta gli omicidi. A meno che non siano assolutamente necessari.

"L'omicida psicopatico Tom Ripley va annoverato tra i maggiori contributi alla letteratura mondiale. Da applauso."
Camilla...

"Based on a true story plucked from Highsmith's own life, Carol tells the riveting drama of Therese Belivet, a stage designer trapped in a department-store day job, whose routine is forever shattered by a gorgeous epiphany--the appearance of Carol Aird, a customer who comes in to buy her daughter a Christmas toy. Therese begins to gravitate toward the alluring suburban housewife, who is trapped in a marriage as stultifying as Therese's job. They fall...

From the Publisher: "I have long had a theory that Nabokov knew The Price of Salt and modeled the climactic cross-country car chase in Lolita on Therese and Carol's frenzied bid for freedom," writes Terry Castle in The New Republic about this novel, arguably Patricia Highsmith's finest, first published in 1952 under the pseudonym Clare Morgan. Soon to be a new film, The Price of Salt tells the riveting story of Therese Belivet, a stage designer trapped...

The Tremor of Forgery is considered by many to be Patricia Highsmith's finest novel. Set in Tunisia in the mid-1960s, it is the story of Howard Ingham, an American writer who has gone abroad to gather material for a movie too sordid to be set in America. Ingham is cool towards Ina, the girlfriend he left behind in New York, but his feelings start to change when she doesn't answer his increasingly aggravated letters, and John Castlewood, the filmmaker...

"In a small Pennsylvania town, Robert Forrester is recuperating from a nasty divorce and a bout of psychological trouble. One evening, while driving home, he sees a pretty young woman framed by her bright kitchen window, a picture of happy domesticity that brings him peace. Soon, Robert can't keep himself away. But when he is inevitably discovered, obsession is turned on its head, and Robert finds himself unable to shake the young woman, nor entirely...

"In a grubby Athens hotel, Rydal Keener is bored and killing time with petty scams. But when he runs into another American, Chester MacFarland, dragging a man's body down the hotel hall, Rydan impulsively agrees to help, perhaps because Chester looks like his father. Then Rydal meets Collete, Chester's younger wife, and captivated, becomes entangled in their sordid lives, as the drama marches to a shocking climax at the ruins of the labyrinth at Knossos"--Amazon.com....