Name: deep water
SKU: 1658681
Price: 675.00 TWD
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Author: Highsmith, Patricia
ISBN: 9780393324556

Type

Physical Book

Author

Patricia Highsmith

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Language

English

Pages

272

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.4x11.8x1.8 cm

Weight

0.24 kg.

ISBN

0393324559

ISBN13

9780393324556

Synopsis "deep water"

Vic and Melinda Van Allen's loveless marriage is held together only by a precarious arrangement whereby, in order to avoid the messiness of divorce, Melinda is allowed to take any number of lovers as long as she does not desert her family. Eventually, Vic can no longer suppress his jealousy and tries to win back his wife by asserting himself through a tall tale of murder--one that soon comes true. In this complex portrayal of a dangerous psychosis emerging in the most unlikely of places, Highsmith examines the chilling reality behind the idyllic facade of American suburban life.

Patricia Highsmith

(Author)

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She was born in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1921, but moved to New York when she was six years old. By the age of sixteen, she became a writer. She was known for being a solitary person. She moved to Europe in 1963 and spent her last years in a secluded house near Locarno, on the border between Switzerland and Italy. Upon her death, she left three million dollars from her estate to Yaddo, the artists' community in upstate New York. Her first novel Strangers on a Train, was turned into a famous movie by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. Her last novel Small g: A Summer Idyll was published posthumously just over a month later.

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