Patricia Highsmith
Selected Novels and Short Stories

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

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

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

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

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