Elsie Tyler is young, charismatic and beautiful, attractive to both men and women. For Elsie, life is fun and love is simple. She is too naive to comprehend the darker side of the human heart, too innocent to recognise the nature of obsession. She won't understand the true feelings that Ralph and Jack have for her - or the increasingly destructive side of passion and jealousy - until it is too late.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
'Uncomfortable, frightening, compulsive and, worst of all, terribly believable' Time Out 'An extremely clever novel she is effortlessly superior to other writers of suspense stories there is no one quite like her' Anita Brookner, Spectator 'Highsmith's novels are peerlessly disturbing bad dreams that keep us restless and thrashing for the rest of the night' New Yorker
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Höhe: 17.8 cm
Breite: 11.1 cm
ISBN-13
978-0-7475-9032-3 (9780747590323)
Schweitzer Klassifikation
Patricia Highsmith was born in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1921. Her first novel, Strangers On A Train, was made into a film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. The Talented Mr Ripley, published in 1955, was awarded the Edgar Allan Poe Scroll by the Mystery Writers of America and introduced the fascinating anti-hero Tom Ripley, who was to appear in many of her later crime novels. Patricia Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland, in February 1995. Her last novel, Small g: A Summer Idyll, was published posthumously just over a month later.
