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People Who Knock on the Door, is a tale about blind faith and the slippery notion of justice that lies beneath the peculiarly American veneer of righteousness.Venomously accurateNo one has created psychological suspense more densely and deliciously satisfying A border zone of the macabre, the disturbing, the not quite accidental . . . Highsmith achieves the effect of the occult without any resources to supernatural machineryHighsmith's novels are peerlessly disturbing . . . bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the nightA writer who has created a world of her own . . . Patricia Highsmith is the poet of apprehension
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Title: | People Who Knock on the Door |
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Author: | Patricia HighsmithSarah Hilary |
SKU: | BK0432504 |
EAN: | 9780349004976 |
Language: | English |
Binding: | Paperback |
About Author
Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and moved to New York when she was six. In her senior year, she edited the college magazine, having decided at the age of sixteen to become a writer. Her first novel, Strangers on a Train (1950), was made into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. The Talented Mr Ripley (1955), introduced the fascinating anti-hero Tom Ripley, and was made into an Oscar-winning film in 1999 by Anthony Minghella. Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland, in February 1995. Her last novel, Small g: A Summer Idyll, was published posthumously, the same year.