A Suspension of Mercy
A Virago Modern Classic
$27.46
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
30 September 2014
Summary
BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY, CAROL AND STRANGERS ON A TRAIN
‘Bears Highsmith’s unique, unsurpassed mixture of unsettling psychological insights’ THE TIMES
‘The original, the best, the gloriously twisted Queen of Suspense’ MARK BILLINGHAM
‘Highsmith’s novels are peerlessly disturbing … bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night’ …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349004570 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349004579 |
| Author: | Patricia Highsmith, Joan Schenkar |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 30 September 2014 |
| Weight: | 190g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 18mm |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
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Highsmith’s novels are peerlessly disturbing … bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night
My suspicion is that when the dust has settled and when the chronicle of 20th-century American literature comes to be written, history will place Highsmith at the top of the pyramid, as we should place Dostoevsky at the top of the Russian hierarchy of novelists - Daily TelegraphAbout The Author
Patricia Highsmith
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.
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