Name: A Suspension of Mercy (in English)
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Author: Patricia Highsmith
ISBN: 9780393321975

portada A Suspension of Mercy (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Patricia Highsmith

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Year

2001

Language

English

Pages

235

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.3 x 14.1 x 1.6 cm

Weight

0.23 kg.

ISBN

0393321975

ISBN13

9780393321975

Synopsis "A Suspension of Mercy (in English)"

With the acclaim for The Talented Mr. Ripley, more film projects in production, and two biographies forthcoming, expatriate legend Patricia Highsmith would be shocked to see that she has finally arrived in her homeland. Throughout her career, Highsmith brought a keen literary eye and a genius for plumbing the psychopathic mind to more than thirty works of fiction, unparalleled in their placid deviousness and sardonic humor. With deadpan accuracy, she delighted in creating true sociopaths in the guise of the everyday man or woman. Now, one of her finest works is again in print: A Suspension of Mercy, a masterpiece of noir fantasy. With this novel, Highsmith revels in eliciting the unsettling psychological forces that lurk beneath the surface of everyday contemporary life. For eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there's no one like Patricia Highsmith.--TimeHighsmith's novels are peerlessly disturbing ....bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night.--The New Yorker

Patricia Highsmith

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Nació en Fort Worth, Texas, en 1921, pero se mudó a Nueva York cuando tenía seis años. A la edad de dieciséis años se convirtió en escritora. Se caracterizaba por ser una persona solitaria. Se mudó a Europa en 1963 y pasó sus últimos años en una casa aislada cerca de Locarno, en la frontera entre Suiza e Italia. A su muerte, dejó tres millones de dólares de su patrimonio a Yaddo, la comunidad de artistas en el norte de Nueva York. Su primera novela Strangers on a Train, fue convertida en una famosa película de Alfred Hitchcock en 1951. Su última novela Small g: A Summer Idyll se publicó póstumamente poco más de un mes después.

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