Found in the Street: A Virago Modern Classic

ISBN-13: 9780349004884 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 352 str.

Patricia Highsmith

Opis

Found in the Street is a haunting psychological thriller, by the queen of the genre, in which there is only a breath between nightmare and reality.

Recenzje

By her hypnotic art Patricia Highsmith puts the suspense story into a toweringly high place in the hierarchy of fiction The Times

O autorze

Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and moved to New York when she was six. In her senior year, she edited the college magazine, having decided at the age of sixteen to become a writer. Her first novel, Strangers on a Train (1950), was made into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. The Talented Mr Ripley (1955), introduced the fascinating anti-hero Tom Ripley, and was made into an Oscar-winning film in 1999 by Anthony Minghella. Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland, in February 1995. Her last novel, Small g: A Summer Idyll, was published posthumously, the same year.