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The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith
by Patricia Highsmith  
The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith presents five of Highsmith's classic short story collections in a single masterful volume. Compelling, twisted, and fiercely intelligent, this landmark collection showcases Highsmith's mastery... Read More
Publication Date: December 2005
 
 
 



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Small g: A Summer Idyll
by Patricia Highsmith  
Six months after his gay partner is brutally murdered, Rickie mourns at a local bar alongside his dancing dog, a possessive seamstress, and her beautiful apprentice, and when the seamstress conspires to thwart the others' infatuation with a... Read More
Publication Date: June 2005
 
 
 



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Slowly, Slowly in the Wind
by Patricia Highsmith  
Originally published in 1979, a popular collection of psychological suspense tales features Poe-like horror fantasies and explores such themes as the writing life and the hypocrisies of the Catholic church. By the late author of Strangers on... Read More
Publication Date: December 2004
 
 
 



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The Black House
by Patricia Highsmith  
'Highsmith's writing is wicked . . . it puts a spell on you, after which you feel altered, even tainted.'—Entertainment Weekly

With Norton's publication of The Black House, Patricia Highsmith's entire body of work is now... Read More

Publication Date: December 2004
 
 
 



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The Glass Cell
by Patricia Highsmith  
At last back in print, one of Patricia Highsmith's most disturbing works.
Rife with overtones of Dostoyevsky, The Glass Cell, first published forty years ago, combines a quintessential Highsmith mystery with a penetrating critique... Read More
Publication Date: May 2004
 
 
 



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The Price of Salt
by Patricia Highsmith  
Now recognized as a masterwork, the scandalous novel that anticipated Nabokov's Lolita.
I have long had a theory that Nabokov knew The Price of Salt and modeled the climactic cross-country car chase in Lolita on... Read More
Publication Date: March 2004
 
 
 



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Deep Water
by Patricia Highsmith  
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... Read More
Publication Date: July 2003
 
 
 



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Mermaids on the Golf Course: Stories
by Patricia Highsmith  
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.
The stories collected in Mermaids on the Golf Course are among... Read More
Publication Date: July 2003
 
 
 



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The Animal-Lover's Book of Beastly Murder
by Patricia Highsmith  
Thirteen murder stories feature such colorful animals characters as a jealous Siamese cat, a truffle-hunting pig, rebellious chickens, an elderly cockroach, a playful goat, and a brave rat. Reprint. 13,000 first printing.
Publication Date: October 2002
 
 
 



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This Sweet Sickness
by Patricia Highsmith  
Obsessed by his love for Annabelle Delaney, David Kelsey tries to break up her marriage and succeeds in accidentally killing her husband. Reprint. 17,000 first printing.
Publication Date: October 2002
 
 
 



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A Dog's Ransom
by Patricia Highsmith  
Long out of print, this Highsmith classic resurfaces with a vengeance. The great revival of interest in Patricia Highsmith continues with the publication of this novel that will give dog owners nightmares for years to come. With an eerie... Read More
Publication Date: August 2002
 
 
 



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Little Tales of Misogyny (Open Market Edition)
by Patricia Highsmith  
The author of Strangers on a Train introduces a gallery of highly unusual characters in these seventeen tales of women who destroy their men and women who destroy themselves. Reprint. 11,500 first printing.
Publication Date: August 2002
 
 
 



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People Who Knock on the Door
by Patricia Highsmith  
With the savage humor of Evelyn Waugh and the macabre sensibility of Edgar Allan Poe, Patricia Highsmith brought a distinct twentieth-century acuteness to her prolific body of fiction. In her more than twenty novels, psychopaths lie in wait... Read More
Publication Date: November 2001
 
 
 



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The Blunderer
by Patricia Highsmith  
With the savage humor of Evelyn Waugh and the macabre sensibility of Edgar Allan Poe, Patricia Highsmith brought a distinct twentieth-century acuteness to her prolific body of fiction. In her more than twenty novels, psychopaths lie in wait... Read More
Publication Date: November 2001
 
 
 



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Strangers on a Train
by Patricia Highsmith  
A major new reissue of the work of a classic noir novelist. With the acclaim for The Talented Mr. Ripley, more film projects in production, and two biographies forthcoming, expatriate legend Patricia Highsmith would be shocked to see that she... Read More
Publication Date: August 2001
 
 
 



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The Tremor of Forgery
by Patricia Highsmith  
An American writer is sent to Tunisia to gather material for a movie, but when his producer fails to show up, he stays on and works instead on a novel. Intimations of violence soon cast deep shodows, and he finds himself an accomplice to... Read More
Publication Date: January 1994
 
 
 



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Those Who Walk Away
by Patricia Highsmith  
The honeymoon is over, and the bride is dead. The grieving husband convinces the police in Rome of his innocence, but has no such luck with his father-in-law, who shoots him at point-blank range and leaves him for dead.
Publication Date: January 1994
 
 
 



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The Cry of the Owl (Highsmith, Patricia)
by Patricia Highsmith  
This “extraordinary story” (Julian Symons) begins with an act of naive voy­eurism. Robert Forester, a depressed but fundamentally decent man, liked to watch Jenny through her kitchen window—a harmless palliative, as he saw it, to his... Read More
Publication Date: January 1994
 
 
 



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Eleven
by Patricia Highsmith  
From the eerily outlandish to the dark and brutal, Eleven presents a gallery of bizarre characters, each driven by strange unspoken urges, whose cumulative effect is at least as unsettling as any of Highsmith's previous novels.
Publication Date: January 1994
 
 
 



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Edith's Diary (Highsmith, Patricia)
by Patricia Highsmith  
As Edith Howland's life becomes harsh, her diary entries only become brighter and brighter. She invents a happy life. As she knits for imaginary grandchildren, the real world recedes. Her descent into madness is subtle, appalling, and... Read More
Publication Date: January 1994
 
 
 



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The Boy Who Followed Ripley
by Patricia Highsmith  
In this quietly terrifying exploration of trust and friendship, a troubled young runaway arrives in Villeperce. And when, on the boy's behalf, Tom Ripley is drawn from his lovely estate in the French countryside to Berlin's seamy underworld... Read More
Publication Date: November 1993
 
 
 



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Ripley Under Water
by Patricia Highsmith  
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, Heloise. Never mind the bloodstains on the basement floor.

But some new... Read More
Publication Date: November 1993
 
 
 



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Ripley's Game
by Patricia Highsmith  
Scorned at an elegant gala, art connoisseur, millionaire, and psychopath Tom Ripley comes up with an ingenious and subtle way to exact his revenge for the insult. Reissue. (A Fine Line Features film, directed by Liliana Cavani, written by... Read More
Publication Date: November 1993
 
 
 



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Ripley's Game
by Patricia Highsmith  
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... Read More
Publication Date: November 1993
 
 
 



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The Boy Who Followed Ripley
by Patricia Highsmith  
'Ripley is an unmistakable descendant of Gatsby, that 'penniless young man without a past' who will stop at nothing.'—Frank Rich

Now part of American film and literary lore, Tom Ripley, 'a bisexual psychopath and art forger who... Read More
Publication Date: November 1993
 
 
 



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Ripley Under Water
by Patricia Highsmith  
'Ripley is an unmistakable descendant of Gatsby, that 'penniless young man without a past' who will stop at nothing.'—Frank Rich

Now part of American film and literary lore, Tom Ripley, 'a bisexual psychopath and art forger who... Read More
Publication Date: November 1993
 
 
 



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The Talented Mr. Ripley
by Patricia Highsmith  
One of the great crime novels of the 20th century, Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley is a blend of the narrative subtlety of Henry James and the self-reflexive irony of Vladimir Nabokov. Like the best modernist fiction,... Read More
Publication Date: September 1992
 
 
 



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Ripley Under Ground
by Patricia Highsmith  
Tom Ripley tries to prevent the loss of his house in the French countryside, his beautiful and very rich wife, and his art collection when a friend makes inopportune inquiries into Ripley's gracious lifestyle
Publication Date: September 1992
 
 
 



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The Talented Mr. Ripley
by Patricia Highsmith  
Ripley is back. This new publication of Patricia Highsmith's classic inaugurates the complete Ripley series at Norton.

Since his debut in 1955, Tom Ripley has evolved into the ultimate bad boy sociopath, influencing countless novelists... Read More
Publication Date: September 1992
 
 
 



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Ripley Under Ground
by Patricia Highsmith  
'Ripley is an unmistakable descendant of Gatsby, that 'penniless young man without a past' who will stop at nothing.'—Frank Rich

Now part of American film and literary lore, Tom Ripley, 'a bisexual psychopath and art forger who... Read More
Publication Date: September 1992
 
 
 



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Tales of the Natural and Unnatural (Highsmith, Patricia)
by Patricia Highsmith  
The acclaimed author sets her spare incisive prose to work in a collection of short stories in which a range of contemporary characters are ultimately consumed by their own obsessions
Publication Date: January 1990
 
 
 



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A Game for the Living (Highsmith, Patricia)
by Patricia Highsmith  
Ramon and Theodore, friends and both lovers of Lelia, become prime suspects when she is found murdered and must find the real killer in order to prove their innocence
Publication Date: March 1988
 
 
 



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The Two Faces of January (Highsmith, Patricia)
by Patricia Highsmith  
When Chester MacFarland, an American embezzler, runs into trouble with a Greek policeman in Athens, Rydal Keener, a fellow American offers to provide him with an alibi
Publication Date: February 1988
 
 
 
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