A Suspension Of Mercy

Author : Patricia Highsmith
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001-08-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393344684

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A Suspension of Mercy by Patricia Highsmith Pdf

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 has finally arrived in her homeland. Throughout her career, Highsmith brought a keen literary eye and a genius for plumbing the psychopathic mind to more than thirty works of fiction, unparalleled in their placid deviousness and sardonic humor. With deadpan accuracy, she delighted in creating true sociopaths in the guise of the everyday man or woman. Now, one of her finest works is again in print: A Suspension of Mercy, a masterpiece of noir fantasy. With this novel, Highsmith revels in eliciting the unsettling psychological forces that lurk beneath the surface of everyday contemporary life. "For eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there's no one like Patricia Highsmith."—Time "Highsmith's novels are peerlessly disturbing ....bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night."—The New Yorker

Author : Patricia Highsmith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Psychological fiction
ISBN : OCLC:939654703

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A Suspension of Mercy by Patricia Highsmith Pdf

Alicia was right she had died at least twenty times in her husband's imagination but that was to be expected as Sydney writes thriller scripts. When she takes an extended trip to Brighton without letting anyone know, Sydney goes through the motions of being a wife killer.

Author : Patricia Highsmith
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780349004716

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This Sweet Sickness by Patricia Highsmith Pdf

BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY, CAROL AND STRANGERS ON A TRAIN 'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' THE TIMES ' I love Highsmith so much . . . What a revelation her writing is' GILLIAN FLYNN 'Highsmith was every bit as deviant and quirky as her mischievous heroes' J. G. BALLARD, DAILY TELEGRAPH David Kelsey has an invincible conviction that life is going to work out just as he has planned it - if he can just fix 'the situation'. His one true love, the brilliant, beautiful Annabelle, has married another man. But that doesn't mean they can't still be friends. And even though she is pregnant with her husband Gerald's baby, that surely doesn't mean she won't one day get back together with David. She still loves him, of that he is certain. David is sure she'll take him back, and, under an alias, is setting up a wonderful home for the two of them in a town close by. And everything is just about going to plan until things take a murderous turn, leaving David a desperate man on the run.

Author : Patricia Highsmith
Publisher : Viking Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1972-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0140034706

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A Suspension of Mercy by Patricia Highsmith Pdf

A major new reissue of the work of a classic noir novelist.

Author : Patricia Highsmith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:16198095

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Those who Walk Away by Patricia Highsmith Pdf

Author : Andrew Wilson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781596919686

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Beautiful Shadow by Andrew Wilson Pdf

The life of Patricia Highsmith was as secretive and unusual as that of many of the best-known characters who people her "peerlessly disturbing" thrillers and short stories. Yet even as her work has found new popularity in the last few years, the life of this famously elusive writer has remained a mystery. For Beautiful Shadow, the first biography of Highsmith, British journalist Andrew Wilson mined the vast archive of diaries, notebooks, and letters she left behind, astonishing in their candor and detail. He interviewed her closest friends and colleagues as well as some of her many lovers. But Wilson also traces Highsmith's literary roots in the work of Poe, noir, and existentialism, locating the influences that helped distinguish Highsmith's writing so startlingly from more ordinary thrillers. The result is both a serious critical biography and one that reveals much about a brilliant and contradictory woman, one who despite her acclaim and affairs always maintained her solitude.

Author : Jeffrie G. Murphy,Jean Hampton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Law
ISBN : 0521395674

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Forgiveness and Mercy by Jeffrie G. Murphy,Jean Hampton Pdf

This book explores the philosophical arguments about the nature of forgiveness, mercy and specific passions in the legal process.

Author : Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593310854

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Love in the Time of Cholera (Illustrated Edition) by Gabriel García Márquez Pdf

A beautifully packaged edition of one of García Márquez's most beloved novels, with never-before-seen color illustrations by the Chilean artist Luisa Rivera and an interior design created by the author's son, Gonzalo García Barcha. In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs—yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again.

Author : Michael Blake
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190879556

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Justice, Migration, and Mercy by Michael Blake Pdf

How should we understand the political morality of migration? Are travel bans, walls, or carrier sanctions ever morally permissible in a just society? This book offers a new approach to these and related questions. It identifies a particular vision of how we might apply the notion of justice to migration policy - and an argument in favor of expanding the ethical tools we use, to include not only justice but moral notions such as mercy/

Author : Patricia Highsmith
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802192424

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The Two Faces of January by Patricia Highsmith Pdf

The award-winning “classic psychological thriller” by the author of Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley (USA Today). In a grubby Athens hotel, Rydal Keener is bored and killing time with petty scams. But when he runs into another American, Chester MacFarland, dragging a man’s body down the hotel hall, Rydal impulsively agrees to help, perhaps because Chester looks like his father. Then Rydal meets Collete, Chester’s younger wife, and captivated, becomes entangled in their sordid lives, as the drama marches to a shocking climax at the ruins of the labyrinth at Knossos. A winner of a Crime Writers of America award, The Two Faces of January was the basis of a film starring Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst, and Oscar Isaac. “An offbeat, provocative and absorbing suspense novel.” —The New York Times “Patricia Highsmith is one of the few suspense writers whose work transcends genre.” —The Austin American-Statesman

Author : Wiley Cash
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062088277

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This Dark Road to Mercy by Wiley Cash Pdf

The critically acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller A Land More Kind Than Home—hailed as "a powerfully moving debut that reads as if Cormac McCarthy decided to rewrite Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird" (Richmond Times Dispatch)—returns with a resonant novel of love and atonement, blood and vengeance, set in western North Carolina, involving two young sisters, a wayward father, and an enemy determined to see him pay for his sins. After their mother's unexpected death, twelve-year-old Easter and her six-year-old sister Ruby are adjusting to life in foster care when their errant father, Wade, suddenly appears. Since Wade signed away his legal rights, the only way he can get his daughters back is to steal them away in the night. Brady Weller, the girls' court-appointed guardian, begins looking for Wade, and he quickly turns up unsettling information linking Wade to a recent armored car heist, one with a whopping $14.5 million missing. But Brady Weller isn't the only one hunting the desperate father. Robert Pruitt, a shady and mercurial man nursing a years-old vendetta, is also determined to find Wade and claim his due. Narrated by a trio of alternating voices, This Dark Road to Mercy is a story about the indelible power of family and the primal desire to outrun a past that refuses to let go.

Author : Linda Fairstein
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101476017

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Silent Mercy by Linda Fairstein Pdf

New York Times bestselling author Linda Fairstein is at her explosive best as she plunges into the byzantine world of New York City’s most powerful and sacred institutions—and unearths the most sinister of secrets… Prosecutor Alexandra Cooper has been called to a Harlem Baptist Church, where a woman has been decapitated and set on fire on the church steps—with the imprint of a Star of David necklace seared into her flesh. Then a second body is found at a cathedral in Little Italy. Alex is blind to the sick and inconceivable motives feeding a particularly vicious serial killer—until she mines the depths of the city’s vast and serpentine religious history. What Alex follows is a dangerous path that takes her far beyond the scope of her investigation, and directly into the path of a frightening and inescapable truth.

Author : Wieland Schwanebeck,Douglas McFarland
Publisher : Springer
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319960500

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Patricia Highsmith on Screen by Wieland Schwanebeck,Douglas McFarland Pdf

This book is the first full-length study to focus on the various film adaptations of Patricia Highsmith’s novels, which have been a popular source for adaptation since Alfred Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train (1952). The collection of essays examines films such as The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Two Faces of January, and Carol, includes interviews with Highsmith adaptors and provides a comprehensive filmography of all existing Highsmith adaptations. Particular attention is paid to queer subtexts, mythological underpinnings, philosophical questioning, contrasting media environments and formal conventions in diverse generic contexts. Produced over the space of seventy years, these adaptations reflect broad cultural and material shifts in film production and critical approaches to film studies. The book is thus not only of interest to Highsmith admirers but to anyone interested in adaptation and transatlantic film history.

Author : Barry Forshaw
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007-07-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405383875

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The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction by Barry Forshaw Pdf

The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction takes the reader on a guided tour of the mean streets and blind corners that make up the world’s most popular literary genre. The insider’s book recommends over 200 classic crime novels from masterminds Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith to modern hotshots James Elroy and Patricia Cornwall. You’ll investigate gumshoes, spies, spooks, serial killers, forensic females, prying priests and patsies from the past, present, and future. Complete with extra information on what to read next, all movie adaptions, and illustrated throughout with photos and diagrams ...all the evidence that counts

Author : Ingo Berensmeyer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783111056166

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Author Fictions by Ingo Berensmeyer Pdf

Fictional novelists and other author characters have been a staple of novels and stories from the early nineteenth century onwards. What is it that attracts authors to representing their own kind in fiction? Author Fictions addresses this question from a theoretical and historical perspective. Narrative representations of literary authorship not only reflect the aesthetic convictions and social conditions of their actual authors or their time; they also take an active part in negotiating and shaping these conditions. The book unfolds the history of such ‘author fictions’ in European and North American texts since the early nineteenth century as a literary history of literary authorship, ranging from the Victorian bildungsroman to contemporary autofiction. It combines rhetorical and sociological approaches to answer the question how literature makes authors. Identifying ‘author fictions’ as narratives that address the fragile material conditions of literary creation in the actual and symbolic economies of production, Ingo Berensmeyer explores how these texts elaborate and manipulate concepts and models of authorship. This book will be relevant to English, American and comparative literary studies and to anyone interested in the topic of literary authorship.