People Who Knock on the Door

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Vorwort 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Patricia Highsmith
• Assisted by: Sarah Hilary (Introduction), Hilary Sarah (Introduction)
• Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.06.2016
• EAN: 9780349004976
• ISBN: 978-0-349-00497-6
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 199 mm x 131 mm x 26 mm
• Series: Virago Press; Virago Modern Classics; VMC; VMC; Virago Modern Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage; Romance, FICTION / Romance / Historical / General, Romantic suspense, FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Romance / Suspense, FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, FICTION / Christian / General, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Family life fiction