With the acclaim for The Talented Mr. Ripley, more film projects in production, and two biographies forthcoming, expatriate legend Patricia Highsmith would be shocked to see that she has finally arrived in her homeland. Throughout her career, Highsmith brought a keen literary eye and a genius for plumbing the psychopathic mind to more than thirty works of fiction, unparalleled in their placid deviousness and sardonic humor. With deadpan accuracy, she delighted in creating true sociopaths in the guise of the everyday man or woman. Now, one of her finest works is again in print: A Suspension of Mercy, a masterpiece of noir fantasy. With this novel, Highsmith revels in eliciting the unsettling psychological forces that lurk beneath the surface of everyday contemporary life. For eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there's no one like Patricia Highsmith.--TimeHighsmith's novels are peerlessly disturbing ....bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night.--The New Yorker
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Highsmith, Patricia
Nascida em Fort Worth, Texas, em 1921, Patricia Highsmith passou grande parte da vida adulta na Suíça e na França. Seu primeiro romance, Pacto sinistro, publicado em 1950, teve grande sucesso comercial e foi filmado por Alfred Hitchcock. Autora de mais de vinte livros, é a criadora do personagem Tom Ripley, o sofisticado sociopata que estreou em O talentoso Ripley, de 1955, que, além de aparecer em outros quatro romances, figura em adaptações para o cinema e a televisão. Ao longo de sua carreira, Highsmith ganhou os prêmios Edgar Allan Poe, O. Henry Memorial, Le Grand Prix de Littérature Policière e o Award of the Crime Writer’s Association da Grã-Bretanha. |