Patricia Highsmith, Patricia Highsmith Edited with an Introduction by Joan Schenkar
Patricia Highsmith, Patricia Highsmith Edited with an Introduction by Joan Schenkar
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Patricia Highsmith
Selected Novels and Short Stories

Author: Patricia Highsmith; Edited with an Introduction by Joan Schenkar

Narrator: Bronson Pinchot and Cassandra Campbell

Unabridged: 27 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/06/2010

Categories: Fiction


Synopsis

The remarkable renaissance of Patricia Highsmith continues with the publication of Patricia Highsmith: Selected Novels and Short Stories, featuring two groundbreaking novels as well as a trove of penetrating short stories. With a critical introduction by Joan Schenkar, situating Highsmiths classic works within her own tumultuous life, this book provides a useful guide to some of her most dazzlingly seductive writing. Strangers on a Train, transformed into a legendary film by Alfred Hitchcock, displays Highsmiths genius for psychological characterization and tortuous suspense, while The Price of Salt, with its lesbian lovers and a creepy PI, provides a thrilling and highly controversial depiction of the love that dare not speak its name. This book firmly establishes Highsmiths centrality to American culture by presenting key works that went on to influence half a century of literature and film. Abandoned by the wider reading public in her lifetime, Highsmith finally gets the canonical recognition that is her due.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Leila on May 07, 2014

I love the escalating tension in each gripping thriller; the straightforward, uncomplicated, but stylish, 50s language; the characters with intricate and sometimes diabolical motivations; and the vividly painted settings in which these characters reside. Charles Bruno, the sociopath in Strangers on a......more

Goodreads review by Lynn on July 18, 2013

This is an amazing collection of short stories and two novels by Patricia Highsmith. She became popular again when her novel The Talented Mr. Ripley was made into a movie starring Matt Damon a few years ago. I prefer the French film version of the same novel under the title Purple Noon personally. I......more

Goodreads review by Williwaw on January 06, 2012

I wanted to own and read this book mostly because it contained the novel, "Strangers on a Train." I saw the Hitchcock film a few years ago and loved it. I also read, and enjoyed, "The Talented Mr. Ripley" during a trip to Europe several years ago, after seeing the movie with Matt Damon. So there was......more

Goodreads review by Ruthiella on June 29, 2017

From the first sentence of Joan Schenkar’s introduction to this collection of the short novels Strangers on a Train and The Price of Salt along with a dozen or so short stories: "Let’s face it, Patricia Highsmith, who spent half her life outside the United States and never wrote a novel without a cr......more

Goodreads review by Nanako on March 11, 2017

Of course, I heard of the movies "Strangers on a Train", "Talented Mr. Ripley" and "Carol" but I had no idea that the movies are based on Highsmith's stories and characters which are much, much ... much richer. Patricia Highsmith is an extraordinary writer of "psychological thrillers", especially si......more