Kirjailija
Patricia Highsmith
Kirjat ja teokset yhdessä paikassa: 186 kirjaa, julkaisuja vuosilta 1999–2026, suosituimpiin kuuluu Carol. Vertaile teosten hintoja ja tarkista saatavuus suomalaisista kirjakaupoista.
186 kirjaa
Kirjojen julkaisuvuodet: 1999–2026.
Little Tales of Misogyny
Patricia Highsmith
Little, Brown Book Group
2015
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Halvin toimitettuna 16,80 €
Seventeen menacing spine-chillers full of Patricia Highsmith's trademark simmering malice.
The Price of Salt: Or Carol
Patricia Highsmith
DOVER PUBLICATIONS
2015
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Halvin toimitettuna 16,10 €
A chance encounter between two lonely women leads to a passionate romance in this lesbian cult classic. Therese, a struggling young sales clerk, and Carol, a homemaker in the midst of a bitter divorce, abandon their oppressive daily routines for the freedom of the open road, where their love can blossom. But their newly discovered bliss is shattered when Carol is forced to choose between her child and her lover. Author Patricia Highsmith is best known for her psychological thrillers Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley. Originally published in 1952 under a pseudonym, The Price of Salt was heralded as "the novel of a love society forbids." Highsmith's sensitive treatment of fully realized characters who defy stereotypes about homosexuality marks a departure from previous lesbian pulp fiction. Erotic, eloquent, and suspenseful, this story offers an honest look at the necessity of being true to one's nature. The book is also the basis of the acclaimed 2015 film Carol, starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara.
Älä pelkää ammattitappajia tai psykopaatteja - pelkää tavallista ihmistä! Patricia Highsmithin no-velleissa arki osoittautuu yllättävämmäksi ja vaarallisemmaksi kuin useimpia meistä huvittaisi ku-vitella. Nuoren valokuvaajan elämä muuttuu odottamatta, kun hän näppää kuvan tapauksesta, joka saattaa olla rikos tai sitten ei... Vähäinen kohtalon oikku tekee kunniallisesta perheenisästä murhaajan... Taiteilija joutuu murhan silminnäkijäksi tomuisella meksikolaisella kadulla ja joutuu painajaisen kurimukseen... Kotipuutarhaan pysytetty täytettyjen lemmikkieläinten kokoelma saa uuden, eriskummallisen näyttelyesineen.
Suspension of Mercy
Patricia Highsmith
Little, Brown Book Group
2014
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Halvin toimitettuna 18,90 €
A masterpiece of noir fantasy in which the bestselling author, Highsmith, revels in eliciting the unsettling psychological forces that lurk beneath the surface of everyday life.
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.
Those Who Walk Away
Patricia Highsmith
Little, Brown Book Group
2014
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Halvin toimitettuna 18,90 €
Those Who Walk Away is a brilliant psychological thriller - a deadly game of cat-and-mouse in the labyrinthine streets of Venice.
Ramon, a devout Catholic, fixes furniture in Mexico City, not far from where he was born into poverty. Theodore, a rich German expatriate and painter, believes in nothing at all. You'd think the two had nothing in common. Except, of course, that both had slept with Lelia. Two form an unlikely friendship, until Lelia is found brutally murdered. Both are suspects and each suspects the other. Twisting in a limbo of tension and doubt, Ramon and Theodore seize on a third man, a thief seen at Lelia's apartment, and their hunt takes them from Mexico City to the sundrenched Acapulco, and to a small colonial mountain town. A thrilling, psychologically complex novel, rich with setting, A Game for the Living is Highsmith at her best.
"[A] classic psychological thriller."--USA TodayOriginally published in 1964, and the winner of the CWA Best Foreign Novel Award, Patricia Highsmith's The Two Faces of January is a chilling tale of suspense, suffused with her trademark slow, creeping unease. In a grubby Athens hotel, Rydal Keener is bored and killing time with petty scams. But when he runs into another American, Chester MacFarland, dragging a man's body down the hotel hall, Rydan impulsively agrees to help, perhaps because Chester looks like his father. Then Rydal meets Collete, Chester's younger wife, and captivated, becomes entangled in their sordid lives, as the drama marches to a shocking climax at the ruins of the labyrinth at Knossos. A film version of The Two Faces of January, starring Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst, and Oscar Isaac (Drive, Inside Llewelyn Davis) is in production. Adapted by Academy Award nominee Hossein Amini (Drive), and produced by Working Title and Timnick Films (The Talented Mr. Ripley), it will be released later this fall. "An offbeat, provocative and absorbing suspense novel."--The New York Times"Patricia Highsmith is one of the few suspense writers whose work transcends genre."--The Austin American-Statesman
Walter Stackhousen vaimo Clara on kostonhaluinen neurootikko, joka on karkottanut hänen ystävänsä yhden toisensa jälkeen. Siksi ei ole ihme, että hän hautoo murha-ajatuksia. Mutta riittääkö hänen rohkeutensa lopulta Claran tappamiseen? Ja selviytyykö hän jäämättä kiinni - vai onko hän liian suuri tunari? Loppuun asti otteessaan pitävä teos psykologisen jännityksen mestarilta.
Level 4: Strangers on a Train Book and MP3 Pack
Patricia Highsmith
Pearson Education Limited
2013
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Halvin toimitettuna 24,10 €
Pearson English Readers bring language learning to life through the joy of reading. Well-written stories entertain us, make us think, and keep our interest page after page. Pearson English Readers offer teenage and adult learners a huge range of titles, all featuring carefully graded language to make them accessible to learners of all abilities. Through the imagination of some of the world’s greatest authors, the English language comes to life in pages of our Readers. Students have the pleasure and satisfaction of reading these stories in English, and at the same time develop a broader vocabulary, greater comprehension and reading fluency, improved grammar, and greater confidence and ability to express themselves. Find out more at english.com/readers
Edith muuttaa miehensä, poikansa ja kissansa kanssa New Yorkista maaseutukaupunkiin. Siellä odottavat uudet ystävät ja työ pienen mutta pippurisen paikallislehden toimittajana ja julkaisijana. Siistissä, miellyttävässä talossa asumisen ilo hieman sumenee, kun taloon muuttaa myös hänen miehensä vanha George-setä, jonka hoito jää käytännössä hänen vastuulleen. Arkielämän kuristusote pidätyskyvyttömän Georgen ja epäluotettavan Cliffie-pojan seurassa kiristyy kaiken aikaa. Vähitellen, väistämättä Edith pakenee päiväkirjaansa, jossa hän luo täydelisen kuvitelman erilaisesta elämästä. Murha saattaa olla ratkaisu, mutta lopputulos on sitäkin kiihkeämpi ja karmivampi. Edithin päiväkirja on Patricia Highsmithin (1921-1995) pääteoksia. Muita hänen tunnetuimpia ja myös suomennettuja teoksiaan ovat rakastettavasta murhaajasta kertova Tom Ripley -kirjasarja sekä Muukalaisia junassa -romaani, joista on tehty myös menestyselokuvia.
Vic and Melinda Van Allen's loveless marriage is held together only by a precarious arrangement whereby, in order to avoid the messiness of divorce, Melinda is allowed to take any number of lovers as long as she does not desert her family. Eventually, Vic can no longer suppress his jealousy and tries to win back his wife by asserting himself through a tall tale of murder--one that soon comes true. In this complex portrayal of a dangerous psychosis emerging in the most unlikely of places, Highsmith examines the chilling reality behind the idyllic facade of American suburban life.
The Tremor of Forgery
Patricia Highsmith
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
2011
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Halvin toimitettuna 21,50 €
The Tremor of Forgery is considered by many to be Patricia Highsmith's finest novel. Set in Tunisia in the mid-1960s, it is the story of Howard Ingham, an American writer who has gone abroad to gather material for a movie too sordid to be set in America. Ingham is cool towards Ina, the girlfriend he left behind in New York, but his feelings start to change when she doesn't answer his increasingly aggravated letters, and John Castlewood, the filmmaker who hired Ingham, fails to show in Tunisia. Amid the tea shops and alleys of the souk, the sun-blasted architecture, and the beaches and hotels frequented by international tourists, will Ingham's morality survive the withering heat? Includes an introduction by Francine Prose.
Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes
Patricia Highsmith
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
2011
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The legendary writer Patricia Highsmith is best remembered today for her chilling psychological thrillers The Talented Mr. Ripley and Strangers on a Train, which was made into the classic film by Alfred Hitchcock and Raymond Chandler. A critically-acclaimed best seller in Europe, Highsmith struggled during her life for recognition in the United States, but since her death in 1995 Highsmith's reputation has grown tremendously, and she is now recognized as one of the signature voices of the troubled twentieth century. "When the dust has settled," critic A. N. Wilson wrote, "and when the chronicle of twentieth-century American literature comes to be written, history will place Highsmith at the top of the pyramid, as we should place Dostoevsky at the top of the Russian hierarchy of novelists." Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes is the last short fiction published during Highsmith's lifetime. The ten eerily up-to-date stories chronicle a world gone slightly mad; environmental degradation, apocalyptic disaster, political chaos, and religious conservatism are captured in incisive prose that leaves us haunted with "afterimages that will tremble--but stay--in our minds" (The New Yorker).
In a small Pennsylvania town, Robert Forrester is recuperating from a nasty divorce and a bout of psychological trouble. One evening, while driving home, he sees a pretty young woman framed by her bright kitchen window. Soon, he can't keep himself away. But when Robert is inevitably discovered, obsession is turned on its head, and he finds himself unable to shake the young woman, nor entirely sure whether he should. Recently made into a major motion picture starring Julia Stiles and Paddy Considine, The Cry of the Owl is essential Highsmith, a modern classic ready to be reborn.
The legendary writer Patricia Highsmith is best remembered today for her chilling psychological thrillers The Talented Mr. Ripley and Strangers on a Train. A critically acclaimed best seller in Europe, Highsmith has for too long been underappreciated in the United States. Starting in 2011, Grove Press will begin to reissue nine of Highsmith's works. Eleven is Highsmith's first collection of short stories, an arresting group of dark masterpieces of obsession and foreboding, violence and instability. Here naturalists meet gruesome ends and unhinged heroes disturb our sympathies. This is a captivating, important collection from "one of the truly brilliant short-story writers of the twentieth century" (Otto Penzler). Includes an introduction by Graham Greene.
Ripley Under Water
Patricia Highsmith
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2010
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Halvin toimitettuna 17,00 €
The gripping finale to Patricia Highsmith's legendary RIPLEY series, the inspiration for the hit Netflix series ‘Compelling ... Highsmith's writing is as insistent as strange footsteps in the fog' SUNDAY TIMES ‘The Ripley books are marvellously, insanely readable' THE TIMES Tom Ripley is quietly living a life of luxury at his chateau at Villeperce, and, as ever, is keeping one step ahead of the law - he has, after all, a past that would not bear too much close scrutiny, and a basement with suspicious stains on the floor... This fifth and final novel in the series finds the sophisticated and amoral American expatriate being harassed by David Pritchard, a fellow American whose boorishness marks him as something of Ripley's alter-ego. Inexplicably familiar with all the incriminating details of Ripley's past, Pritchard is determined to expose him. He shadows Ripley's every move, first spying on him at home in France and then following him to Morocco. Tensions build on the return to Villeperce as Pritchard sets out to locate a body in a nearby river, one Ripley would prefer to remain hidden...