PATRICIA HIGHSMITH

Ripley is back. This new publication of Patricia Highsmith's classic inaugurates the complete Ripley series at Norton.Since his debut in 1955, Tom Ripley has evolved into the ultimate bad boy sociopath, influencing countless novelists and filmmakers. In this first novel, we are introduced to suave, handsome Tom Ripley: a young striver, newly arr...

En Ripley en Peligro, Patricia Highsmith - siempre dentro del género negro/policial- da muestras de una tramas densas desde el punto de vista narrativo/psicológico. Tom Ripley y su mujer Heloise disfrutan de una plácida existencia en el paraíso perdido de una pequeña localidad francesa, cuando aparecen en escena los Pritchard, una enigmática ...

El personaje de Tom Ripley, que ha fascinado a tantos lectores, y tam­bién a tantos de los mejores cineastas (René Clément, Wim Wenders, Anthony Minghella, Liliana Cavani, entre otros), es el protagonista de esta extraordinaria novela de Patricia Highsmith. Nada al principio une a Jonathan Trevanny con Tom Ripley. Jonathan es un hombre honesto y...

En El talento de Mr. Ripley , la más célebre novela de Patricia Highsmith , aparece su más fascinante personaje: el inquietante y amoral Tom Ripley, figura prototípica de un género que Patricia Highsmith han inventado, que se sitúa entre la novela policíaca y la novela negra, entre Graham Greene y Raymond Chandler, donde el más trepidante susp...

The Patricia Highsmith renaissance continues with Nothing That Meets the Eye, a brilliant collection of twenty-eight psychologically penetrating stories, a great majority of which are published for the first time in this collection. This volume spans almost fifty years of Highsmith's career and establishes her as a permanent member of our Amer...

Las catástrofes -naturales o no- no se presentan poco a poco como una inundación, sino que sobrevienen inesperadamente... sobre todo si las narra Patricia Highsmith. Con su prosa precisa y afilada, la gran escritora de suspense presenta en este libro una inquietante selección de modernos relatos de terror aderezados con su habitual humor negro...

With Norton's publication of The Black House, Patricia Highsmith's entire body of work is now back in print. First published in 1981, this volume is one of Highsmith's most nuanced and psychologically suspenseful works. The stories in and The Black House mine classic Highsmith terrain as they sketch the lives of suburban dwellers that appear qui...

The great revival of interest in Patricia Highsmith continues with the publication of this legendary, cultish short story collection. With an eerie simplicity of style, Highsmith turns our next-door neighbors into sadistic psychopaths, lying in wait among white picket fences and manicured lawns. In the darkly satiric, often mordantly hilarious s...

The great revival of interest in Patricia Highsmith continues with this work that reveals the chilling reality behind the idyllic facade of American suburban life. The stories collected in Mermaids on the Golf Course are among Highsmith's most mature, psychologically penetrating works. As in the title story, in which a man's brush with death e...