Eleven - Couverture souple

Highsmith, Patricia

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0747575002 ISBN 13 : 9780747575009

Editeur : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2007

Synopsis

Unsuspecting victims are devoured by their own obsessions in this perfectly chilling collection. A man becomes devoted to his pet snails, with fatal results. A young nanny turns arsonist in a bid to become heroine of the hour. A boy finally stands up to his mother, with knife in hand. Highsmith weaves a world claustrophobic in its intensity, disturbing in its mundanity, as she probes the dark corners of the human psyche. "Eleven" is a collection of masterpieces of Highsmith's particular art, full of compulsion, foreboding and cruel pleasures.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Patricia Highsmith was born in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1921. Her first novel, Strangers On A Train, was made into a film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. The Talented Mr Ripley, published in 1955, was awarded the Edgar Allan Poe Scroll by the Mystery Writers of America and introduced the fascinating anti-hero Tom Ripley, who was to appear in many of her later crime novels. Patricia Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland, in February 1995. Her last novel, Small g: A Summer Idyll, was published posthumously just over a month later.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0747575002
• ISBN 13: 9780747575009
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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