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Lingua:Libri Italiani“Un gioiello… Una suspense eccezionale.” Daily Mail
“Nessuno è bravo come Patricia Highsmith a scovare la minaccia che si annida nella quotidianità più familiare.”
Time
Quello che era nato come uno scherzo si dimostrerà carico di conseguenze quando la bugia diventerà reale e Vic non riuscirà più a frenare i suoi istinti.
Un viaggio nei meccanismi più reconditi dell’inconscio che svela come, talvolta, l’autocontrollo sia solo la più infida delle nevrosi, capace di mutare un uomo apparentemente tranquillo in un omicida.
“Bellissimo e assolutamente avvincente.”
Megan Abbott
“Un thriller in cui tutte le paure, le fobie e i dolori nascono sotto il tetto coniugale… mostra senza paura una guerra tra marito e moglie.”
Gillian Flynn
Named by The Times as the all-time number one crime writer, Patricia Highsmith was an author who broke new ground and defied genre clichés with novels such as The Talented Mr Ripley and Strangers on a Train.
In the classic creative writing guide Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction, Highsmith reveals her secrets for producing world-class crime and thrillers, from imaginative tips for generating ideas to useful ways of turning them into stunning stories.
Now a major film starring Oscar-winner Ben Affleck and Golden Globe-nominee Ana de Armas.
'If you read crime stories at all or perhaps especially if you don't, you should read Deep Water'
SUNDAY TIMES
'If I really don't like somebody, I kill him . . . You remember Malcolm McRae, don't you?'
Melinda Van Allen is beautiful, headstrong and sexy. Unfortunately for Vic Van Allen, she is his wife. Their love has soured, and Melinda takes pleasure in flaunting her many affairs to her husband. When one of her lovers is murdered, Vic hints to her latest conquest that he was responsible.
As rumours spread about Vic's vicious streak, fiction and reality start to converge. It's only a matter of time before Vic really does have blood on his hands.
“Una tormentata storia d’amore, un libro perfetto.” The Independent
“Un libro di straordinaria forza e immaginazione, il miglior romanzo di Patricia Highsmith, il suo capolavoro.”
The New Yorker
“Da qualche parte la Grazia deve pur apparire, e infatti si posa nella mente di Edith.”
Elfriede Jelinek, Premio Nobel per la Letteratura
The classic thriller behind the Hitchcock film, and Highsmith's first novel - soon to be remade by David Fincher, director of Gone Girl, with a screenplay by Gillian Flynn.
By the bestselling author of The Talented Mr Ripley and Carol
The psychologists would call it folie a deux . . .
'Bruno slammed his palms together. "Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis! Catch?'''
From this moment, almost against his conscious will, Guy Haines is trapped in a nightmare of shared guilt and an insidious merging of personalities.
'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' The Times
" Ripley è tornato, garbato e letale come al solito. Fa quello che vuole e la fa sempre franca. Per questo ci
piace.” Time Out
“ll tocco geniale e rivoluzionario della Highsmith sta nel renderci complici della fredda logica di Ripley.”
Daily Telegraph
A stunning hardback edition of one of the most influential, groundbreaking crime novels ever written.
'I'm a huge Highsmith fan. If there's one book I wish I'd written, it's The Talented Mr Ripley' Sarah Waters
Tom Ripley travels to Italy with a commission to coax a prodigal young American back to his wealthy father. But Ripley finds himself very fond of Dickie Greenleaf. He wants to be like him - exactly like him. Suave, agreeable and utterly amoral, Ripley will stop at nothing to accomplish his goal.
The Talented Mr. Ripley serves as an unforgettable introduction to this smooth confident man, whose talent for murder and self-invention is chronicled in four subsequent Ripley novels.
“Patricia Highsmith racconta gli uomini come un ragno racconterebbe le mosche.”
Graham Greene
“Tom Ripley è immancabilmente un discendente di Gatsby, uno spiantato senza passato che non si fermerà davanti a niente.” Frank Rich, The New York Times Magazine
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