Книга: Highsmith Patricia «Deep Water»

Deep Water

Серия: "Virago modern classics"

Melinda Van Allen is beautiful, headstrong and sexy. Unfortunately for Vic Van Allen, she is his wife. Their love has soured, and Melinda takes pleasure in flaunting her many affairs to her husband. When one of her lovers is murdered, Vic hints to her latest conquest that he was responsible. As rumours spread about Vic's vicious streak, fiction and reality start to converge. It's only a matter of time before Vic really does have blood on his hands. Books included in the VMC 40th anniversary series include: Frost in May by Antonia White; The Collected Stories of Grace Paley; Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault; The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter; The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann; Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith; The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West; Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston; Heartburn by Nora Ephron; The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy; Memento Mori by Muriel Spark; A View of the Harbour by Elizabeth Taylor; and Faces in the Water by Janet Frame.

Издательство: "Little, Brown and Company" (2018)

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Highsmith, Patricia

▪ 1996

      U.S. writer (b. Jan. 19, 1921, Fort Worth, Texas—d. Feb. 4, 1995, Locarno, Switz.), crafted suspense-filled psychological thrillers that summoned a mounting feeling of apprehension, beginning with Strangers on a Train (1950; filmed 1951) and continuing with some 20 novels, 5 of them featuring the chilling psychopath Tom Ripley, an amoral gentleman murderer. In many of her works, seemingly harmless activities often foreshadowed violence. Highsmith's ingeniously written novels and her compelling short stories earned her a cult following in Europe, where she moved in 1963. She surrounded herself with cats and lived as a recluse in Italy, France, and finally Switzerland. Among her other books are The Price of Salt (1952; written under the pseudonym Claire Morgan), a tale of a love affair between a young girl and a married woman; The Animal-Lover's Book of Beastly Murder (1975), about the killing of humans by animals; and Ripley Under Water (1991), the last work featuring her popular central character.

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▪ American writer
original name  Mary Patricia Plangman  
born Jan. 19, 1921, Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.
died Feb. 4, 1995, Locarno, Switz.

      American novelist and short-story writer who is best known for psychological thrillers, in which she delved into the nature of guilt, innocence, good, and evil.

      Highsmith, who took her stepfather's name, graduated from Barnard College, New York City, in 1942 and traveled to Europe in 1949, eventually settling there. In 1950 she published Strangers on a Train, an intriguing story of two men, one ostensibly good and the other ostensibly evil, whose lives become inextricably entangled. The following year the novel was made into a movie by Alfred Hitchcock (Hitchcock, Sir Alfred), using a screenplay by Raymond Chandler (Chandler, Raymond) and Czenzi Ormonde. The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955) is the first of several books featuring the adventures of a likable murderer, Tom Ripley, who takes on the identities of his victims. The novel won several awards for mystery writing. Ripley also appears in Ripley Under Ground (1970), Ripley's Game (1974), The Boy Who Followed Ripley (1980), and Ripley Under Water (1991). Among her other books are The Price of Salt (1952; written under the pseudonym Claire Morgan), a tale of a love affair between a married woman and a younger, unmarried woman, and The Animal-Lover's Book of Beastly Murder (1975), about the killing of humans by animals. Highsmith's collections of short stories include The Black House (1981) and Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes (1987).

      Highsmith also wrote on the craft of writing. In her Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction (1966; revised and enlarged 1981), she held that “art has nothing to do with morality, convention, or moralizing.”

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Источник: Highsmith, Patricia

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