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Bradford, Richard Dawson, Jill. Ellis, Grace Highsmith, Patricia Meaker, Marijane Schenkar, Joan.Meaker, Marijane
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cleis Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HIGHSMITH, PATRICIA MEASummary: 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: 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 LOVDawson, Jill.
Summary: In 1964, the eccentric American novelist Patricia Highsmith is hiding out in a cottage in Suffolk, to concentrate on her writing and escape her fans. She has another motive too - a secret romance with a married lover based in London. Unfortunately it soon becomes clear that all her demons have come with her. Prowlers, sexual obsessives, frauds, imposters, suicides and murderers: the tropes of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAWSummary: 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 STRBradford, Richard
Summary: "Made famous by the great success of her psychological thrillers, The Talented Mr Ripley and Strangers on a Train, Patricia Highsmith is lauded as one of the most influential and celebrated modern writers. However, there has never been a clear picture of the woman behind the books. The relationship between Highsmith's lesbianism, her fraught personality - by parts self-destructive and malicious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Caravel 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HIGHSMITH, PATRICIA BRAHighsmith, Patricia
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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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 PUREllis, Grace
Summary: A fictional and complex portrait of bestselling author Patricia Highsmith caught up in the longing that would inspire her queer classic, The Price of Salt. Flung Out of Space is both a love letter to the essential lesbian novel, The Price of Salt, and an examination of its notorious author, Patricia Highsmith. Veteran comics creators Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer have teamed up to tell this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts Surely 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ELLSchenkar, Joan.
Summary: Reveals the dark private life of the successful twentieth-century writer, chronicling her Texas origins through her self-exile in Europe and offering insight into the influence of Tom Ripley and the Hitchcock film inspired by her first novel."Born in 1921 in her grandmother's boardinghouse in Fort Worth, Texas, Patricia Highsmith grew up in the Greenwich Village of the 1940s: the "freest four...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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: Four suspense novels of the 1940s. These four stories examine isolated crimes within society that not only breed murder but destructive suspicions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOMSummary: 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: In the 1960s a number of gifted writers--some at the peak of their careers, others newcomers--reimagined American crime fiction through formal experimentation and the exploration of audacious new subjects and themes. This is the second of two volumes gathering the best of their work, nine novels of astonishing variety and inventiveness that pulse with the energies of that turbulent,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Where the door is always open and the welcome mat is out / Patricia Highsmith -- Bullet in the brain / Tobias Wolff -- Gryphon / Charles Baxter -- In the cemetery where Al Jolson is buried / Amy Hempel -- Cosmopolitan / Akhil Sharma.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2005