Highsmith, Patricia
Contents: Something the cat dragged in -- Not one of us -- The terrors of basket-weaving -- Under a dark angel's eye -- I despise your life -- The dream of the Emma C -- Old folks at home -- When in Rome -- Blow it -- The kite -- The black house.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 1988
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1993
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1993
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penzler Books 1986
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1977
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2004
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Summary: The remarkable renaissance of Patricia Highsmith continues with the publication of The Highsmith Reader , featuring two groundbreaking novels as well as a trove of penetrating short stories. With a critical introduction by Joan Schenkar, situating Highsmith's classic works within her own tumultuous life, this book provides a useful guide to some of her most dazzlingly seductive writing. ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2010
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Highsmith, Patricia
Summary: The nightmare is only beginning for a wealthy Manhattan couple, the Reynolds, when they receive a note saying that their beloved poodle, Lisa, is being held for ransom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Co. 2002
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Summary: "Publishing for the centenary of her birth, Patricia Highsmith's diaries "offer the most complete picture ever published" of the canonical author (New York Times). Relegated during her lifetime to the pulpy genre of mystery, Patricia Highsmith has emerged since her death in 1995 as one of "our greatest modernist writers" (Gore Vidal). Presented for the first time, this one-volume assemblage of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norotn & Company 2021
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Contents: The man who wrote books in his head -- The network -- The pond -- Something you have to live with -- Slowly, slowly in the wind -- Those awful dawns -- Woodrow Wilson's necktie -- One for the islands -- A curious suicide -- The baby spoon -- Broken glass -- Please don't shoot the trees.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2004
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Summary: Two women die under similar circumstances--Melchior Kimmel killed his wife, Walter Stackhouse did not kill his. Lieutenant Corby, investigating the Stackhouse case, links it with the unsolved Kimmel murder. Then begins a nightmare for the two suspected men. Corby's wish to get at the truth becomes perverted by his ambition into an almost insane desire to extract confessions. Soon all three are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2001
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Contents: Highsmith country: an introduction by Joan Schenkar -- Strangers on a train -- A mighty nice man -- The still point of the turning world -- Where the door is always open and the welcome mat is out -- Quiet night -- In the plaza -- The great cardhouse -- The baby spoon -- The price of salt -- Oona, the jolly cave woman -- Two disagreeable pigeons -- Not one of us -- Woodrow wilson's necktie --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Co. 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2001
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Summary: The cunning schemes of a young American ne'er-do-well, who travels to Italy on an unusual assignment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2008
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Summary: A major new reissue of the work of a classic noir novelist. Throughout her career, Patricia Highsmith brought a keen literary eye and a genius for plumbing the psychopathic mind to more than thirty works of fiction, unparalleled in their placid deviousness and sardonic humor. With deadpan accuracy, she delighted in creating true sociopaths in the guise of the everyday man or woman. In A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2016
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Summary: Tom Ripley convinces a business associate to hire a young German picture-framer to assassinate a mobster.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Guy Haines, a tennis star who hates his wife, is approached on a train by a stranger, Bruno Anthony, who hates his father. Anthony offers a plan: each could kill the other's victim. No motive, no clue would link the two murders save the casual meeting of strangers on a train.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 1951
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2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER STRSummary: A unique look at the life of celebrated American author Patricia Highsmith based on her diaries and notebooks, and the intimate reflections of her lovers, friends and family. Focusing on Highsmith₂s quest for love and her troubled identity, the film sheds new light on her life and writing. Most of Highsmith₂s novels were adapted for the big screen; the best known of these are Strangers on a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LOVSummary: Tom Ripley has been sent to Italy by the father of one Philippe Greenleaf with the objective of bringing Greenleaf back into the family fold in the United States. Ripley, an accomplished forger, takes his job half-seriously until he falls in love with the same woman Greenleaf is in love with, Marge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PURSummary: Sleek thriller set in Greece and Istanbul in 1962. Intrigue begins at the Parthenon when wealthy American tourists Chester MacFarland and his young wife Collete meet American ex-pat Rydal, a scammer working as a tour guide. The two befriend him, but a murder at the couple's hotel puts all three on the run together and creates a precarious bond between them as the trio's allegiance is put to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This adventurous volume, with its companion devoted to the 1930s and 40s, presents a rich vein of modern American writing too often neglected in mainstream literary histories. Evolving out of the terse and violent hardboiled style of the pulp magazines, noir fiction expanded over the decades into a varied and innovative body of writing. Tapping deep roots in the American literary imagination,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRISummary: A tennis star is harassed on a train by a psychotic who wants to swap murders, and who then proceeds to carry out his part of the unconfirmed bargain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1997
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2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER STRSummary: Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. He's hired to go to Italy to bring back the playboy son of a millionaire and soon is plunged into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 1999
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A young woman becomes inexplicably attracted to a man who is stalking her. When her boyfriend goes missing, the stalker is the immediate suspect, until a game of jealousy and betrayal turns deadly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2010