Patricia Highsmith

Broschiertes Buch

People Who Knock on the Door

A Virago Modern Classic

Beschreibung

People Who Knock on the Door is a tale about blind faith and the slippery notion of justice that lies beneath the peculiarly American veneer of righteousness.

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
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 264g
• ISBN-13: 9780349004976
• ISBN-10: 0349004978
• Artikelnr.: 41814890