Patricia Highsmith

The Glass Cell (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

At last back in print, one of Patricia Highsmith's most disturbing works.

Rife with overtones of Dostoyevsky, The Glass Cell, first published forty years ago, combines a quintessential Highsmith mystery with a penetrating critique of the psychological devastation wrought by the prison system. Falsely convicted of fraud, the easygoing but naïve Philip Carter is sentenced to six lonely, drug-ravaged years in prison. Upon his release, Carter is a more suspicious and violent man. For those around him, earning back his trust can mean the difference between life and death. The Glass Cell's bleak and compelling portrait of daily prison lifeand the consequences for those who live itis, sadly, as relevant today as it was when the book was first published in 1964.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780393345681
• Artikelnr.: 59590453

Autorenporträt

Patricia Highsmith (19211995) was the author of more than twenty novels, including Strangers on a Train, The Price of Salt and The Talented Mr. Ripley, as well as numerous short stories.

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