The Cry of the Owl

Informationen zum Autor Patricia Highsmith was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1921 but moved to new York when she was six. In her senior year she edited the college magazine, having decided to become a writer at the age of sixteen. Her first novel Strangers on a Train , was made into a famous film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. Patricia Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland in 1995. Her last novel Small g: A Summer Idyll was published posthumously just over a month later. Klappentext one of her finest novels' Guardian"If everybody in the world didn't keep watching to see what everybody else did, we'd all go berserk."Jenny believes that sighting an owl is a portent of death. Zusammenfassung one of her finest novels' Guardian"If everybody in the world didn't keep watching to see what everybody else did, we'd all go berserk."Jenny believes that sighting an owl is a portent of death.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Patricia Highsmith
• Editore: Vintage UK
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9781784876807
• ISBN: 978-1-78487-680-7
• Pagine: 272
• Dimensioni: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Serie: Vintage Classics
• Categorie: Narrativa > Gialli > Polizieschi, thriller, spionaggio; FICTION / Crime, FICTION / Literary, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / Noir, Classic fiction, Crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), Adventure / action fiction