Patricia Highsmith - Böcker

Två mästerliga spänningsromaner om åtrå och begär i efterlängtad nyutgåva Människors mörker: två romaner om besatthet samlar två av Patricia Highsmiths klassiska sextiotalsromaner i en volym. I Mord för Annabelle [1960] är den unga, begåvade forsk...

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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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»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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Första boken om Tom Ripley i efterlängtad nyutgåva »Den största kriminalförfattaren av alla.« The Times Tom Ripley är en ung, framgångslysten man - föräldralös från fem års ålder och uppfostrad av en elak faster - som försöker lämna sitt förflutna...

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Andra boken i den klassiska thrillerserien om Tom Ripley Sex år har gått sedan Tom Ripley mördade Dickie Greenleaf. Han bor nu i en vacker fransk villa, omgiven av en konstsamling i världsklass, och är gift med en arvtagerska till ett läkemedelsim...

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Om hunden kan sägas vara människans bästa vän, är katten tveklöst författarens. Och läsarnas! Kanske är det inte så konstigt: älskad och gåtfull utgör den inte bara ett fantastiskt sällskap, utan är också en enastående karaktär att bygga en histor...

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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 clichés with novels such as The Talented Mr Ripley and Strangers on a Train. In the classic creative writing guide P...

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The gripping finale to Patricia Highsmith's legendary RIPLEY series, the inspiration for the hit Netflix series 'Compelling ... Highsmith's writing is as insistent as strange footsteps in the fog' SUNDAY TIMES 'The Ripley books are marvellously, i...

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**AS SEEN ON WRITE AROUND THE WORLD WITH RICHARD E GRANT** 'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' The Times 'Ripley, amoral, hedonistic and charming, is a genuinely original creation' Daily Telegraph 'He is using you for what you are worth' Tom Ripley w...

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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, involving kidnapping plots, lies and deception. Ripley becomes the boy's protector as friend...

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»Den största kriminalförfattaren av alla.« | The Times »Patricia Highsmiths romaner är ojämförligt olycksbådande.« | The New Yorker Två män möts på Atens vindlande bakgator. Chester MacFarlane är en bedragare med otaliga falska identiteter, men ha...

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'Marvellously, insanely readable... Highsmith has done it again' The Times "There's no such thing as a perfect murder... That's just a parlor game, trying to dream one up." Tom Ripley is enjoying his wealthy lifestyle in France, until an associate...

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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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"You're always good on ideas, Tom..." An American art collector is claiming that the expensive masterpiece he bought is a fake. He wants to meet with the artist - but Tom Ripley knows that artist no longer exits. Ripley needs to hide his role in t...

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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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Little Tales of Misogyny is Highsmith's legendary, cultish short-story collection. With an eerie simplicity of style, Highsmith turns our next-door neighbours into sadistic psychopaths, lying in wait among white picket fences and manicured lawns. ...

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WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY VAL McDERMID Therese is just an ordinary sales assistant working in a New York department store when a beautiful, alluring woman in her thirties walks up to her counter. Standing there, Therese is wholly unprepared for the f...

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'If I really don't like somebody, I kill him . . . You remember Malcolm McRae, don't you?' Melinda Van Allen is beautiful, headstrong and sexy. Unfortunately for Vic Van Allen, she is his wife. Their love has soured, and Melinda takes pleasure in ...

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Just in time for the centennial celebration of groundbreaking noir fiction writer Patricia Highsmith comes a reissue of her propulsive, engrossing debut, Strangers on a Train , with a new introduction by best-selling author Paula Hawkins. Guy Hain...

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Patricia Highsmith's story of romantic obsession may be one of the most important, but still largely unrecognized, novels of the twentieth century. First published in 1952 and touted as "the novel of a love that society forbids," the boo...

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Boken bakom den hyllade storfilmen Carol med Cate Blanchett och Rooney Mara - Vald till en av Årets bästa böcker i DN: »En utsökt febrig kärlekshistoria med en perfekt inledningsscen bland varuhusets julglitter.« »En mästerlig skildring av utsatt ...

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Mit 'The Talented Mr. Ripley' (1955) hat Patricia Highsmith dem Kriminalroman neue Dimensionen erschlossen: Im Mittelpunkt steht nicht der Detektiv, sondern der zweifache Mörder, aus dessen Sicht die Geschichte erzählt wird. Der Roman, der bei Mil...

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BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY, CAROL AND STRANGERS ON A TRAIN 'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' THE TIMES ' I love Highsmith so much . . . What a revelation her writing is' GILLIAN FLYNN 'Highsmith was every bit as deviant and...

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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY PAULA HAWKINS, AUTHOR OF GIRL ON A TRAIN "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 this moment, almos...

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CLASSIC THRILLER BEHIND THE HITCHCOCK FILM AND HIGHSMITH'S FIRST NOVEL By the bestselling author of The Talented Mr Ripley and Carol 'Her books have stylistic texture, psychological depth, mesmeric readability' SUNDAY TIMES 'The original, the best...

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Patricia Highsmith, author of Strangers On a Train, The Talented Mr.Ripley, Found In The Street, and many other books, is known as one of the finest suspense novelists. In this book, she analyzes the key elements of suspense fiction, drawing upon ...

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Now a major film starring Oscar-winner Ben Affleck and Golden Globe-nominee Ana de Armas. 'If you read crime stories at all or perhaps especially if you don't, you should read Deep Water' SUNDAY TIMES 'If I really don't like somebody, I kill him ....

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Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting materia...

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NOW A MAJOR EMMY AWARD-WINNING NETLIX SERIES STARRING ANDREW SCOTTOne of the BBC's 100 Novels that shaped our world. 'An outstanding thriller which has deservedly become a classic' THE TIMES 'Ripley - amoral, hedonistic and charming - is a genuine...

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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...

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