Those Who Walk Away: A Virago Modern Classic

ISBN-13: 9780349004860 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 272 str.

Patricia Highsmith

Opis

Ray Garrett is recently bereaved after his beloved wife commits suicide. But Ed Coleman, his wife's father, is determined to get to the bottom of her mysterious death. Against the compelling but sinister backdrop of Venice, Garrett and Coleman are caught up in a deadly cat-and-mouse game shot through with vengeance and suspicion.

Recenzje

Bears Highsmith's unique, unsurpassed mixture of unsettling psychological insights, moods of tension and malice, and an ending of brilliant ambiguity 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.