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Eight writers turned the novel down.
They called it implausible. Nobody, they said, would trade murders with a stranger.
They were wrong. Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train became a Hitchcock classic — and the opening move of a body of work so coldly controlled that it created its own subgenre. Ripley alone has outlived nearly everyone who dismissed her.
This book shows you how she did it.
HACKING Patricia Highsmith is a working craft handbook, not literary criticism. It reverse-engineers the machinery of psychological suspense: the clinical narrator who refuses to judge, the criminal you find yourself rooting for, the murder delivered in the same flat register as a train timetable. You will learn how Highsmith makes a reader complicit — and how to build that trap in your own fiction. Inside: • The “useful-detail” technique that turns a reader into an accomplice
• Line-level analysis of her openings — how guilt arrives in the first sentence, with no interior report
• Five Ripley passages taken apart: the class gap, the murder, the forged self, the ending that withholds the verdict forever
• Style Features Checklists, Imitation Tricks, and progressive exercises in every chapter
• A complete ten-axis fingerprint of her voice — clinical distance at maximum, and how to reach it For writers of crime, suspense, literary fiction, and anyone who wants to know how amorality is engineered on the page rather than merely described.
Stop admiring the suspense. Start building it. Part of The Ghostwriter's Blueprint Series — practical handbooks that clone the technique of the writers who matter.
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Eight writers turned the novel down. They called it implausible. Nobody, they said, would trade murders with a stranger.They were wrong. Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train became a Hitchcock classic - and the opening move of a body of work so coldly controlled that it created its own subgenre. Ripley alone has outlived nearly everyone who dismissed her. This book shows you how she did it.HACKING Patricia Highsmith is a working craft handbook, not literary criticism. It reverse-engineers the machinery of psychological suspense: the clinical narrator who refuses to judge, the criminal you find yourself rooting for, the murder delivered in the same flat register as a train timetable. You will learn how Highsmith makes a reader complicit - and how to build that trap in your own fiction. Inside: - The "useful-detail" technique that turns a reader into an accomplice - Line-level analysis of her openings - how guilt arrives in the first sentence, with no interior report- Five Ripley passages taken apart: the class gap, the murder, the forged self, the ending that withholds the verdict forever- Style Features Checklists, Imitation Tricks, and progressive exercises in every chapter- A complete ten-axis fingerprint of her voice - clinical distance at maximum, and how to reach it For writers of crime, suspense, literary fiction, and anyone who wants to know how amorality is engineered on the page rather than merely described. Stop admiring the suspense. Start building it. Part of The Ghostwriter's Blueprint Series - practical handbooks that clone the technique of the writers who matter. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798188527808
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Eight writers turned the novel down. They called it implausible. Nobody, they said, would trade murders with a stranger.They were wrong. Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train became a Hitchcock classic - and the opening move of a body of work so coldly controlled that it created its own subgenre. Ripley alone has outlived nearly everyone who dismissed her. This book shows you how she did it.HACKING Patricia Highsmith is a working craft handbook, not literary criticism. It reverse-engineers the machinery of psychological suspense: the clinical narrator who refuses to judge, the criminal you find yourself rooting for, the murder delivered in the same flat register as a train timetable. You will learn how Highsmith makes a reader complicit - and how to build that trap in your own fiction. Inside: - The 'useful-detail' technique that turns a reader into an accomplice - Line-level analysis of her openings - how guilt arrives in the first sentence, with no interior report- Five Ripley passages taken apart: the class gap, the murder, the forged self, the ending that withholds the verdict forever- Style Features Checklists, Imitation Tricks, and progressive exercises in every chapter>Stop admiring the suspense. Start building it. Part of The Ghostwriter's Blueprint Series - practical handbooks that clone the technique of the writers who matter. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798188527808
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Eight writers turned the novel down. They called it implausible. Nobody, they said, would trade murders with a stranger.They were wrong. Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train became a Hitchcock classic - and the opening move of a body of work so coldly controlled that it created its own subgenre. Ripley alone has outlived nearly everyone who dismissed her. This book shows you how she did it.HACKING Patricia Highsmith is a working craft handbook, not literary criticism. It reverse-engineers the machinery of psychological suspense: the clinical narrator who refuses to judge, the criminal you find yourself rooting for, the murder delivered in the same flat register as a train timetable. You will learn how Highsmith makes a reader complicit - and how to build that trap in your own fiction. Inside: - The "useful-detail" technique that turns a reader into an accomplice - Line-level analysis of her openings - how guilt arrives in the first sentence, with no interior report- Five Ripley passages taken apart: the class gap, the murder, the forged self, the ending that withholds the verdict forever- Style Features Checklists, Imitation Tricks, and progressive exercises in every chapter- A complete ten-axis fingerprint of her voice - clinical distance at maximum, and how to reach it For writers of crime, suspense, literary fiction, and anyone who wants to know how amorality is engineered on the page rather than merely described. Stop admiring the suspense. Start building it. Part of The Ghostwriter's Blueprint Series - practical handbooks that clone the technique of the writers who matter. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798188527808
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