UID:
kobvindex_ZLB34099763
ISBN:
9780802192806
Content:
" Ramó,, a devout Catholic, fixes furniture in Mexico City, not far from where he was born into poverty. Theodore, a rich German expatriate and painter, believes in nothing at all. You'd think the two had nothing in common. Except, of course, that both had slept with Lelia. Two form an unlikely friendship, until Lelia is found brutally murdered. Both are suspects and each suspects the other. Twisting in a limbo of tension and doubt, Ramó, and Theodore seize on a third man, a thief seen at Lelia's apartment, and their hunt takes them from Mexico City to sun-drenched Acapulco, and to a small colonial mountain town. A thrilling, psychologically complex novel, rich with setting, A Game for the Living is Highsmith at her best."
Content:
Rezension(1): " Patricia Highsmith was born in Texas in 1921, raised in New York, and lived most of her adult life in Europe. A graduate of Barnard College, prior to her career as a novelist, Highsmith wrote stories for comic books and, on Truman Capote's recommendation, was a resident at Yaddo. She was the author of 22 novels and seven collections of stories. She died in 1995." Rezension(2): " Cleveland Plain Dealer :“,atricia Highsmith is often described as a mystery or crime writer, which is a bit like calling Picasso a draftsman. The statement contains a measure of truth, but what it leaves out is almost everything. . [ A Game for the Living is] an elegant and psychologically sophisticated morality play. . All of it reveals Highsmith to be in fine form." Rezension(3): " USA Today :“,lassic." Rezension(4): " New Yorker :“,here's no thriller writer's gamesmanship in her novels, none of the reassuring trickery of professional pulp,Highsmith's style is as blunt and straightforward as a strip-search." Rezension(5): " Mystery News :“, coolly analytic study of friendship, neurosis, and grief." Rezension(6): "Graham Greene:[Highsmith's] characters are irrational, and they leap to life in their very lack of reason. . Highsmith is the poet of apprehension rather than fear." Rezension(7): "Paul Theroux:Miss Highsmith's genius is in presenting fantasy's paradox: successes are not what they seem. . Where in the traditional fairy tale the heroine turns the toad into a prince, in Miss Highsmith's fables the prince becomes a toad--success is nearly always fatal. . Combining the best features of the suspense genre with the best of existential fiction--a reflection--the stories are fabulous, in all the senses of that word." Rezension(8): "Terrence Rafferty, New Yorker :Patricia Highsmith's novels are peerlessly disturbing--bad dreams that keep us restless and thrashing for the rest of the night." Rezension(9): " Cleveland Plain Dealer :Highsmith, who can change reality to nightmare with one well-turned phrase, is a legendary crime writer."
Language:
English
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