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Patricia Highsmith
Selected Novels and Short Stories
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Beschreibung
The remarkable renaissance of Patricia Highsmith continues with the publication of Patricia Highsmith: Selected Novels and Short Stories. , featuring two groundbreaking novels as well as a trove of penetrating short stories. With a critical introduction by Joan Schenkar, situating Highsmith's classic works within her own tumultuous life, this book provides a useful guide to some of her most dazzlingly seductive writing. Strangers on a Train. (1950), transformed into a legendary film by Alfred Hitchcock, displays Highsmith's genius for psychological characterization and tortuous suspense, while The Price of Salt. (1952), with its lesbian lovers and a creepy PI, provides a thrilling and highly controversial depiction of "the love that dare not speak its name. " Patricia Highsmith: Selected Novels and Short Stories. firmly establishes Highsmith's centrality to American culture by presenting key works that went on to influence a half-century of literature and film. Abandoned by the wider reading public in her lifetime, Highsmith finally gets the canonical recognition that is her due.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Patricia Highsmith
- Joan Schenkar
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2010
Format
- Buch (Hardcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 644
