Patricia Highsmith

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The Glass Cell

A Virago Modern Classic

Beschreibung

In 1961, Patricia Highsmith received a fan letter from a prison inmate. A correspondence ensued and Highsmith became fascinated with the psychological traumas that incarceration can inflict.

Autor

Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and moved to New York when she was six. In her senior year, she edited the college magazine, having decided at the age of sixteen to become a writer. Her first novel, Strangers on a Train (1950), was made into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. The Talented Mr Ripley (1955), introduced the fascinating anti-hero Tom Ripley, and was made into an Oscar-winning film in 1999 by Anthony Minghella. Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland, in February 1995. Her last novel, Small g: A Summer Idyll, was published posthumously, the same year.

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Produktdetails

• Virago Modern Classics
• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group / Virago Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 226g
• ISBN-13: 9780349004952
• ISBN-10: 0349004951
• Artikelnr.: 40527822

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Bears Highsmith's unique, unsurpassed mixture of unsettling psychological insights, moods of tension and malice, and an ending of brilliant ambiguity The Times