Böcker av Patricia Highsmith

Tom Ripley is struggling to stay one step ahead of his creditors and the law, when an unexpected acquaintance offers him a free trip to Europe and a chance to start over. Ripley wants money, success and the good life and he's willing to kill for i...

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The psychologists would call it folie a deux... 'Bruno slammed his palms together. 'Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis! Catch?'' From th...

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Främlingar på ett tåg - Snart som ny storfilm av teamet bakom Gone Girl : David Fincher, Ben Affleck & Gillian Flynn! »Highsmith skapar en infernalisk dramatik. Även om vi vet hur det slutar håller hon läsaren i ett järngrepp.« MAGNUS ERIKSSON...

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En klassisk deckartrilogi av genrens mästare. Patricia Highsmiths antihjälte Tom Ripley är älskvärd, trevlig och fullständigt galen - för att få igenom sina onda avsikter igenom drar han sig inte ens för att mörda dem som står honom närmast. I sin...

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Three classic crime novels by a master of the macabre - The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, and Ripley's Game - appear here together in hardcover for the first time. Suave, agreeable, and completely amoral, Patricia Highsmith's hero, the...

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A stunning hardback edition of one of the most influential, groundbreaking crime novels ever written. 'I'm a huge Highsmith fan. If there's one book I wish I'd written, it's The Talented Mr Ripley' Sarah Waters Tom Ripley travels to Italy with a c...

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»Patricia Highsmiths Carol är en utsökt febrig kärlekshistoria med en perfekt inledningsscen bland varuhusets julglitter.« Vald till en av 2016 års bästa böcker | PHILIP TEIR, DN Therese Belivet, 19, drömmer om att bli scenograf och jobbar extra i...

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Centering on an unlikely romance between a young sales clerk and a lonely housewife, this lesbian cult classic is an engrossing tale of passion and self-discovery. Therese, a young sales clerk, and Carol, a housewife in the throes of a bitter divo...

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Named by The Times as the all-time number one crime writer, Patricia Highsmith was an author who broke new ground and defied genre cliches with novels such as The Talented Mr Ripley and Strangers on a Train. In the classic creative writing guide P...

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A chance encounter between two lonely women leads to a passionate romance in this lesbian cult classic. Therese, a struggling young sales clerk, and Carol, a homemaker in the midst of a bitter divorce, abandon their oppressive daily routines for t...

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Edith Howland's diary is her most precious possession, and as she is moving house she is making sure it's safe. A suburban housewife in fifties America, she is moving to Brunswick with her husband Brett and her beloved son, Cliffie, to start a new...

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A stunning hardback edition of one of the most influential, groundbreaking crime novels ever written.'I'm a huge Highsmith fan. If there's one book I wish I'd written, it's The Talented Mr Ripley' Sarah WatersTom Ripley travels to Italy with a com...

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Tom Ripley is quietly living a life of luxury at his chateau at Villeperce, and, as ever, is keeping one step ahead of the law - he has, after all, a past that would not bear too much close scrutiny...The fifth novel featuring the protagonist Tom ...

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'Uncomfortable, frightening, compulsive and, worst of all, terribly believable. It's vintage Highsmith' Time Out On a stroll through Greenwich Village, security guard Ralph Linderman finds a wallet on the sidewalk. It belongs to Jack Sutherland, a...

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Completed just months before Patricia Highsmith's death in 1995, Small g explores the labyrinthine intricacies of passion, sexuality, and jealousy in a charming tale of love misdirected. 'What is most remarkable in this novel is the empathy . . . ...

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Tom Ripley has a lovely house in the French countryside, a beautiful and very rich wife, and an art collection worthy of a connoisseur. But this gracious life has not come easily; it is based on murder, forgery, and smuggling, and could topple at ...

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Living on his posh French estate with his elegant heiress wife, Tom Ripley, on the cusp of middle age, is no longer the striving comer of The Talented Mr. Ripley. Having accrued considerable wealth through a long career of crime forgery, extortion...

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I sin villa i Frankrike lever Tom Ripley ett stillsamt liv. Han påtar i trädgården, målar tavlor och ägnar sig åt sin vackra hustru miljonärsdottern Heloise. Men idyllen är bedräglig. Reeves Minot, en småskurk och hälare, besöker Tom och ber om ha...

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I En man utan samvete, är Tom Ripley tillbaka lika kallhamrad och hänsynslös som förut, men trots allt lika charmerande. Väl installerad i sin villa på franska landsbygden tillsammans med sin vackra hustru, miljonärsdottern Heloise, fortsätter han...

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The continuing adventures of Ripley, played by Matt Damon in The Talented Mr Ripley. When a troubled young runaway arrives on Tom Ripley's French estate, he is drawn into a world he thought he'd left behind: the seedy underworld of Berlin, involvi...

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Tom Ripley is struggling to stay one step ahead of his creditors, and the law, when an unexpected acquaintance offers him a free trip to Europe and a chance to start over. Ripley wants money, success and the good life and he's willing to kill for ...

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Ian Hart stars in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation, as Patricia Highsmith's infamous Ripley. Tom Ripley detests murder unless it is absolutely necessary. He prefers someone else to do the dirty work. But if he's called on to act there is no one more...

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Främlingar på ett tåg - Snart som ny storfilm av teamet bakom Gone Girl : David Fincher, Ben Affleck & Gillian Flynn! »Den största kriminalförfattaren av alla!« | THE TIMES »En fantastisk studie i psykologisk tortyr och hur tunn den vardagliga fer...

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Han är kallhamrad och hänsynslös men ändå charmerande. Han är en potentiell mördare. Han heter Tom Ripley. Idén till sina klassiska böcker om Mr Ripley fick Patricia Highsmith 1952 när hon en tidig morgon från sin hotellbalkong i Positano fick syn...

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'Edith's fall takes the form of a psychological chiller, but there is also something larger, the poignancy of her struggle not to go under. She is betrayed by such ordinary dreams' New York Times Edith Howland's diary is her most precious possessi...

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2016 Reprint of 1952 Edition. "The Price of Salt" is Highsmith's only lesbian novel. She is best known for her Ripley detective novels. It is a fairly realistic look at lesbian life in the 1950s. Originally published under the pseudonym ...

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En klassisk deckartrilogi av genrens mästare. Patricia Highsmiths antihjälte Tom Ripley är älskvärd, trevlig och fullständigt galen - för att få igenom sina onda avsikter igenom drar han sig inte ens för att mörda dem som står honom närmast. I sin...

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'These little tales are tremendous fun, glorious hand grenades lobbed at the reader by a gleeful, cackling Patricia Highsmith' Dan Rhodes Little Tales of Misogyny is Highsmith's legendary, cultish short-story collection. With an eerie simplicity o...

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»Patricia Highsmiths Carol är en utsökt febrig kärlekshistoria med en perfekt inledningsscen bland varuhusets julglitter.« Vald till en av 2016 års bästa böcker | PHILIP TEIR, DN Therese Belivet, 19, drömmer om att bli scenograf och jobbar extra i...

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Now a major motion picture starring Viggo Mortenson and Kirsten Dunst. 'Highsmith is a giant of the genre. The original, the best, the gloriously twisted Queen of Suspense' Mark Billingham Two men meet in the picturesque backstreets of Athens. Che...

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