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Quan l’enginyer Robert Forester, divorciat de poc, deprimit i establert en una petita localitat de Pennsilvania, comença a espiar la jove i aparentment feliç Jenny Thierolf a traves de la finestra de casa seva, res no fa pensar que aquesta distraccio innocent pugui acabar convertint-se en una obsessio. Una nit, la Jenny l’enxampa, pero, sorprenentment, en lloc de denunciar-lo, el convida a passar i prendre cafe amb ella. Es el primer d’un seguit d’esdeveniments tan inesperats com, en darrer terme, fatals. Patricia Highsmith, un dels maxims exponents del thriller psicologic nord-america, crea en aquesta novel•la un mon angoixant, construt entorn d’uns personatges turmentats i una inquietant historia de relacions nocives, gelosia, venjança i mort. El crit de l’oliba ara novament traduda al catala per Ferran Rafols, es una obra mestra del genere.

Sydney Bartleby has killed his wife. At least, he has thought about it, compulsively, repeatedly, plotting schemes, designing escapes, forging alibis. Of course he has; he's a thriller writer. He even knows how to dispose of her body. But when Alicia takes a long, unannounced holiday, Sydney descends into the treacherous world of his own fantasy.

The honeymoon is over; the bride dead by her own hand. Ray Garrett, the grieving husband, convinces the police in Rome of his innocence, but not his father-in-law, Ed Coleman, who shoots him at point-blank range and leaves him for dead. Ray survives and follows Coleman to Venice, where the two fall into an eerie game of cat-and-mouse - Coleman obsessed with vengeance and Ray determined to save his reputation, and himself. Each is at once the hunter and the hunted in a tense duel that, as each manages to walk away, draws them nearer to death.

Tom Ripley is struggling to stay one step ahead of his creditors and the law, when an unexpected acquaintance offers him a free trip to Europe and a chance to start over. Ripley wants money, success and the good life and he's willing to kill for it. When his new-found happiness is threatened, his response is as swift as it is shocking.

Las catástrofes -naturales o no- no se presentan poco a poco como una inundación, sino que sobrevienen inesperadamente... sobre todo si las narra Patricia Highsmith. Con su prosa precisa y afilada, la gran escritora de suspense presenta en este libro una inquietante seleccion de modernos relatos de terror aderezados con su habitual humor negro -y algo salvaje-; unos relatos cuyos personajes permaneceran en nuestro recuerdo inexorablemente.Desde los reveladores olores de Nabuti, hasta el inoportuno rincon elegido por la Comision de Control Nuclear para depositar residuos radiactivos, o las tacticas defensivas de un rascacielos de lujo contra un ejercito de cucarachas que los fumigadores no logran matar. Desde las historias magicas y de terror que siguen la estela de una ballena furiosa, hasta el milagro y la revolucion que surgieron tras el golpe que un Papa se dio en el pie. Desde la felicidad que sintio una mujer que se creia Cleopatra, hasta el presidente de Estados Unidos Buck Jones. No hay mejor guia para lo macabro y sus significados que la incomparable Patricia Highsmith

Philip Carter has spent six years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. On his release his beautiful wife is waiting for him. He has never had any reason to doubt her. Nor their friend, Sullivan. Carter has never been suspicious, or violent. But prison can change a man.'The Glass Cell has lost little of its disturbing power . . . Highsmith was a genuine one-off, and her books will haunt you' Daily Telegraph

El escritor parte de acontecimientos cotidianos que pueden disparar una narración; el escritor y luego el lector. Y el arte consiste en captar la atención del lector contándole algo divertido o algo a lo que valga la pena dedicarle unos cuantos minutos u horas.En este libro, hablo mucho acerca de los sucesos extraños, las coincidencias que aportaron a mi escritura buenas historias o libros. Son los sucesos inesperados y a menudo los de menor importancia los que inspiran al escritor.PATRICIA HIGHSMITHCon este sugerente punto de partida, la gran escritora de misterio nos invita a conocer las entrañas del proceso de creacion de una novela de intriga. Apoyandose en comentarios sobre sus propias experiencias, Patricia Highsmith avanza a lo largo del camino creativo que sigue un escritor, entre inspiraciones y divagaciones, arranques frustrados y callejones sin salida, exitos y fracasos.

Las tragedias cobran una cotidianidad inquietante enesta magistral selección de relatos. La narración evoca lacálida familiaridad de los barrios residenciales, los jardinescuidados y losbares locales. Sin embargo, las infi delidades y lasindiscrecionesaparentemente insignifi cantes -y los asesinatos-consumena los protagonistas que las cometen. Una insaciable avaricia acaba con las amistades mas fieles, unoscelos destructivos aplastan a unos personajes aburridosde supropia rutina, una vieja camaraderia destruye cualquierintentode revelar un secreto demoledor, un rescate con exitoacaba endelirio criminal, un gesto altruista desemboca en unaesclavitudirritante plagada de mentiras, una añoranza infantillevanta elvuelo en un sueño... fatal. Cuando la rutina se altera, despierta un escalofrianterecordatoriode nuestra propia fragilidad.

Two men meet in the picturesque backstreets of Athens. Chester MacFarlane is a conman with multiple false identities, near the end of his rope and on the run with his young wife Colette. Rydal Keener is a young drifter looking for adventure: he finds it in one evening as the law catches up to Chester and Colette, and their fates become fatally entwined. Patricia Highsmith draws us deep into a cross-European game of cat and mouse in this masterpiece of suspense from the author of The Talented Mr Ripley. Now a major film starring Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst and Oscar Isaac (Drive, Inside Llewelyn Davis). This special edition includes a foreword by director and screenwriter Hossein Amini.

Tom Ripley, feliçment casat amb una hereva francesa, viu a prop de París i ha assolit alguns dels seus principals objectius a la vida: ser raonablement ric, no haver de treballar i dur una vida regalada. Tot amb poc més de trenta anys. A aquesta envejable situació hi contribueix amb uns ingressos notables la Derwart Ltd, una empresa que aprofita l'èxit d'un pintor que es va suïcidar a Grècia i que és sistemàticament falsificat. Quan l'autenticitat dels quadres es posa en dubte i tota la vida de Ripley pot anar-se'n en orris, els esdeveniments es precipiten.

En Tom Ripley encara es un bon noi. Per aixo el milionari senyor Greenleaf l’envia a Europa, perque intenti fer tornar el seu fill Dickie, lliurat a la vida bohemia en el sud de Napols. Quan en Tom arriba, pero, mes que provar de satisfer l’encarrec, es fa molt amic d’en Dickie, i de la seva xicota, la Marge, i es deixa seduir per la vida regalada i feliç de la parella. Comença una relacio complexa entre ells i quan en Dickie, potser frivolament, el vol apartar del seu costat, en Tom reacciona amb molta, molta violencia.

Two men meet in the picturesque backstreets of Athens. Chester MacFarlane is a conman with multiple false identities, near the end of his rope and on the run with his young wife Colette. Rydal Keener is a young drifter looking for adventure: he finds it in one evening as the law catches up to Chester and Colette, and their fates become fatally entwined. Patricia Highsmith draws us deep into a cross-European game of cat and mouse in this masterpiece of suspense from the author of The Talented Mr Ripley.

David Kelsey has an invincible conviction that life is going to work out just as he has planned it - if he can just fix 'the situation'. His one true love, the brilliant, beautiful Annabelle, has married another man. But that doesn't mean they can't still be friends. And even though she is pregnant with her husband Gerald's baby, that surely doesn't mean she won't one day get back together with David. She still loves him, of that he is certain. David is sure she'll take him back, and, under an alias, is setting up a wonderful home for the two of them in a town close by. And everything is just about going to plan until things take a murderous turn, leaving David a desperate man on the run.

"II cofanetto Tutto Ripley raccoglie tutti i romanzi della saga di Ripley di Patricia Highsmith. La serie completa di un eroe noir protagonista di numerose trasposizioni cinematografiche: Tom Ripley e stato portato sullo schermo da Wim Wenders (L'amico americano) e da Liliana Cavani (Il gioco di Ripley) e infine riproposto con il volto di Matt Damon nel film Il talento di mr. Ripley, per la regia di Antony Minghella. "

"Una lucida analisi della natura umana sotto stress, dei suoi meccanismi, della crisi di tutti i principi etici della vita associata. Undici racconti in cui l'imprevisto interviene a confondere le categorie del bene e del male e la follia sconvolge la vita degli insospettabili protagonisti, vittime e carnefici di una quotidianita orrenda e incomprensibile. "

«¿Había sido una llamada del extranjero, o lo habían simulado? No estaba seguro. Dickie Greenleaf. El comienzo de sus problemas, pensó. El primer hombre al que había matado, y el único al que había l

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At the 'small g', a Zurich bar known for its not exclusively gay clientele, the lives of a small community are played out one summer. Rickie Markwalder is a designer whose lover Petey was brutally murdered. Rickie and his performing dog Lulu are regulars at the bar, as are vindictive Renate, a seamstress, and her teenage apprentice Luisa. Into their lives comes Teddie, impressionable and beautiful, and a catalyst for the series of events that will change everything. Patricia Highsmith's final novel is an intricate exploration of love and sexuality, the depths of spite and the triumph of human kindness. It is a work that, in the tradition of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, shows us how bizarre and unpredictable love can be. Small g, in the words of her biographer Andrew Wilson, is an 'extended fairy tale suggesting that...happiness is precarious and...romance should be embraced.'

En esta novela, de un suspense trepidante, encontramos de nuevo a Tom Ripley –el protagonista ambiguo y fascinante de El talento de Mr. Ripley– algunos años despues, con una reputación intachable y casado con una joven y hermosa heredera francesa. En su lujosa finca cerca de Paris, Ripley lleva una existencia apacible, cuidando el jardin, pintando, estudiando frances y escuchando musica.Un dia le telefonean de Londres sus socios de la Buckmaster Gallery, marchantes de Derwatt, un misterioso pintor que se oculta en un ignorado rincon de Mexico mientras el precio de sus cuadros sube vertiginosamente. Sin embargo, un coleccionista americano sospecha que le han vendido un cuadro de Derwatt falsificado, por lo que urge la aparicion del pintor para disipar sospechas... pero por desgracia Derwatt ha muerto. Y ahi entra en accion Tom Ripley.