Патриция Хайсмит — библиография

'Ramon had done it. Obviously! He thought about Ramon, his Catholic soul trapped in his passion for Lelia. He'd find Ramon and see that he paid with his life for what he had done.'
In A Game for the Living threads of sexual jealousy and guilt are shot through with all Patricia Highsmith's uncanny talent for the unexpected.
Mild-mannered Theo is a wealthy German expatriate; hot-tempered Ramon was born into poverty in Mexico City. The two men are unlikely friends - especially as they are in love with the same woman. When Lelia is found brutally murdered, both lovers are suspects - and each suspects the other. But then they discover that a thief was seen at Lelia's apartment, and their hunt leads them on a frantic chase to sun-drenched Acapulco. Theo begins to get the uneasy feeling that his every move is being watched.

В «Мистере Рипли под землей» читатели вновь встретятся с обаятельным мошенником и убийцей Томом Рипли. Хайсмит с блестящим мастерством и присущим ей черным юмором рассказывает историю очередного преступления своего героя. На этот раз Мистер Рипли занялся продажей произведений искусства, и он по-прежнему верен себе — не признает никаких моральных преград, если речь идет о его благополучии.

On a stroll through Greenwich Village, security guard Ralph Linderman finds a wallet on the sidewalk. It belongs to Jack Sutherland, a wealthy aspiring artist, and it is his misfortune to have it returned to him - with all $263 and credit cards untouched. Because now Ralph knows where Jack lives.
Elsie Tyler is a beautiful young waitress - an innocent in New York - and Ralph feels he must protect her from 'bad company'. When he sees Elsie leaving Jack's apartment, he is not pleased. Not pleased at all.

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.

'Extraordinary... one of her finest novels' Guardian
"If everybody in the world didn't keep watching to see what everybody else did, we'd all go berserk."
Jenny believes that sighting an owl is a portent of death. When she spots a stranger looking in through her window one night, she believes that he is an omen too. But fate doesn't work in the way that either of them expect.
This novel of suspense and paranoia draws on Highsmith's own experience of being a stalker.

«Aquest llibre no ?s un manual d'instruccions. ?s impossible explicar com s'escriu un llibre reeixit, ?s a dir, llegible. Per? aix? ?s el que fa que escriure sigui una professi? activa i emocionant: la possibilitat sempre present de fracassar.Molts escriptors novells pensen que els autors consolidats han de tenir una f?rmula d'?xit. Per damunt de tot, aquest llibre desf? aquesta idea. No hi ha cap secret per triomfar escrivint fora de la individualitat, o diguem-ne personalitat. I, com que cada persona ?s diferent, nom?s l'individu pot expressar el que el distingeix dels qui l'envolten.Aix? ?s el que jo anomeno l'obertura de l'esperit. Per? no ?s una cosa m?stica. ?s simplement una mena de llibertat; una llibertat organitzada. Suspens no aconseguir? fer treballar m?s intensament a ning?. El que s? que aconseguir?, espero, ?s que els qui volen escriure descobreixin el que ja tenen a dins»."Consells sensats, benhumorats i pr?ctics d'una de les escriptores de suspens m?s importants i reconegudes de la literatura universal", Damon Knight"Highsmith ?s una escriptora a l'altura de Dostoievski, Faulkner i Camus",  Los Angeles Times

Безробітний Том Ріплі марно мріє розбагатіти. У нього є кілька сумнівних талантів: вміння імітувати голоси, підробляти підписи, удавати з себе будь-кого… Якось він знайомиться з дуже поважною персоною – одним з найбагатших людей США. У чоловіка є прибуткове завдання до Ріплі. Хлопцю потрібно вирушити до Італії, щоб переконати сина заможного чоловіка повернутися до Штатів та зайнятися батьковим бізнесом. Однак коли Ріплі знайомиться з юним спадкоємцем, у нього виникає бажання зайняти місце нового друга. Та чи дійсно Том зможе прожити життя іншої людини, не викликавши підозри? Чужі гроші в його кишені вже знають відповідь…

Connoisseur of art, harpsichord aficionado, gardener extraordinaire, and genius of improvisational murder, the inimitable Tom Ripley finds his complacency shaken when he is scorned at a posh gala. While an ordinary psychopath might repay the insult with some mild act of retribution, what Ripley has in mind is far more subtle, and infinitely more sinister. A social slight doesn't warrant murder of course-- just a chain of events that may lead to it.

The Buckmaster Gallery is staging another Derwatt exhibition, but now an American collector claims that the expensive masterpiece he bought three years ago is a fake. It is, of course, and he wants to talk to Derwatt, but Derwatt, inconveniently, is dead. Ripley needs the perfect solution to keep his role in the fraud a secret and his reputation clean, but not everyone's nerves are as steady as his. Especially when it comes to murder.

In this first novel, we are introduced to suave, handsome Tom Ripley: a young striver, newly arrived in the heady world of Manhattan in the 1950s. A product of a broken home, branded a "sissy" by his dismissive Aunt Dottie, Ripley becomes enamored of the moneyed world of his new friend, Dickie Greenleaf. This fondness turns obsessive when Ripley is sent to Italy to bring back his libertine pal, but he grows enraged by Dickie's ambivalent feelings for Marge, a charming American dilettante.