Patricia Highsmith

Finalmente in audiolibro il capolavoro di Patricia Highsmith, il thriller che ha scolpito per sempre nella storia della letteratura un personaggio indimenticabile: Tom Ripley. Napoli, anni Cinquanta.

Ascolta i racconti di una delle voci più amate della letteratura crime contemporanea. In "Urla d'amore", undici storie evocano atmosfere tese e perturbanti, dove anche la quotidianità si trasforma in fonte di inquietudine e scenari opprimenti.

Victor Van Allen è un editore benestante e rispettato. Vive a Little Wesley (Massachusetts) con la moglie Melinda e la figlia Margherita. Dietro alla facciata di un matrimonio perfetto, la coppia mantiene un equilibrio precario grazie a un accordo che consente a Melinda di avere amanti.

Nella sua villa francese, Tom Ripley accoglie il tormentato Frank, che ha appena ucciso il padre. Invece di denunciarlo, il truffatore sceglie di proteggerlo, guidarlo e trascinarlo con sé fino a Berlino.

Un thriller psicologico sottile e inquieto, quinto e ultimo atto della saga di Ripley. Tom Ripley vive in una villa elegante vicino a Fontainebleau. Ma l'arrivo di David Pritchard, vicino eccentrico e ossessivo, riapre ferite sepolte.

Avvicinato da uno sconosciuto in uno scompartimento di un treno con una proposta decisamente inconsueta e molto pericolosa, l'insicuro e tormentato Guy Haines si trova, quasi contro la sua volontà, invischiato in un incubo da cui non potrà più sottrarsi.

In Patricia Highsmith's debut novel, we encounter Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno, passengers on the same train....

Claire Morgan, una autora desconocida y que eligió permanecer en el más absoluto anonimato, publicó en 1952 una novela, El precio de la sal...

Tom Ripley passes his leisured days at his French country estate tending the dahlias, practicing the harpsichord, and enjoying the company of his lovely wife.....

In This Sweet Sickness, David Kelsey has an unyielding conviction that life will turn out all right for him; he just has to fix "the situation" of being in love with a married woman. Obsessed with Annabelle and the life he has imagined for them, David prepares to win her over, whatever it takes...

The remarkable renaissance of Patricia Highsmith continues with the publication of Patricia Highsmith: Selected Novels and Short Stories, featuring the groundbreaking novels Strangers on a Train and The Price of Salt as well as a trove of penetrating short stories. With a critical introduction...

For two years, Walter Stackhouse has been a faithful and supportive husband to his wife, Clara. But she is distant and neurotic, and Walter finds himself harboring gruesome fantasies about her demise. When Clara's dead body turns up at the bottom of a cliff in a manner uncannily resembling the...

The great revival of interest in Patricia Highsmith continues with this work that reveals the chilling reality behind the idyllic facade of American suburban life. In Deep Water, set in the small town of Little Wesley, Vic and Melinda Meller's loveless marriage is held together only by a...

A major new reissue of the work of a classic noir novelist. Throughout her career, Patricia Highsmith brought a keen literary eye and a genius for plumbing the psychopathic mind to more than 30 works of fiction, unparalleled in their placid deviousness and sardonic humor. With deadpan accuracy...

With its sinister humor and genius plotting, Ripley's Game is an enduring portrait of a compulsive, sociopathic American antihero....

El personaje de Tom Ripley, que ha fascinado a tantos lectores, y también a tantos de los mejores cineastas (René Clément, Wim Wenders, Anthony Minghella...

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....

En esta novela, de un suspense trepidante, encontramos de nuevo a Tom Ripley algunos años después...

En "El talento de Mr. Ripley", la más célebre novela de Patricia Highsmith, aparece su más fascinante personaje...

Highsmith explores Ripley's bizarrely paternal relationship with a troubled young runaway, whose abduction draws them into Berlin's seamy underworld.....