Patricia Highsmith

»Patricia Highsmiths Carol är en utsökt febrig kärlekshistoria med en perfekt inledningsscen bland varuhusets julglitter.« Vald till en av 2016 års bästa böcker | PHILIP TEIR, DNTherese Belivet, 19, drömmer om att bli scenograf och jobbar extra i en leksaksaffär. En dag expedierar hon en elegant kvinna och tillsammans hittar de en julklapp åt kvinnans dotter. Kvinnans namn är Carol Aird. Therese får impulsen att skicka henne ett julkort, vilket blir början på en passionerad kärleksaffär - men som också gör att Carol riskerar förlora vårdnaden av sin dotter. Maken har hyrt en privatdetektiv som förföljer kvinnorna och buggar dem.Patricia Highsmith publicerade Carol 1952 med titeln The Price of Salt och bakom pseudonymen Claire Morgan. Förlagets beskrivning på omslaget löd: »Romanen om en kärlek samhället förbjuder«. Fyrtio år senare trycktes romanen igen, med titeln Carol och i Patricia Highsmiths eget namn. I översättning av Karin Lindeqvist och med ett efterord av författaren.PATRICIA HIGHSMITH [1921 - 1995], född i Fort Worth, Texas, är en av den amerikanska litteraturens stora författare. Highsmith är mest berömd för sina psykologiska thrillers om Tom Ripley - men litteraturhistorien har också kommit att värdera hennes debutroman Främlingar på ett tåg [Strangers on a Train, 1950] och den lesbiska kärleksromanen Carol [1952] högt. 2015 hade storfilmen Carol premiär i Cannes, regisserad av Todd Haynes och med Cate Blanchett i rollen som Carol och Rooney Mara som Therese. »Helt fantastiskt bra!« | SOFIA JONSSON, EN FÖRBANNAD PODD»Patricia Highsmith berättar sin passionerade historia med subtil elegans och klar blick. Den liksom lojt återhållna och precisa stilen laddar varje till synes trivialt ord eller gest med betydelse.« | EVA JOHANSSON, SVD»Det säger något om Highsmiths skicklighet som författare att hon så tidigt inte bara skriver en bok med ett ärende, som flyttar fram föreställningen om vilken typ av kärlek som ryms i en kärleksroman, utan dessutom gör den så rik att den når psykologiska skikt som finns i kärlek och förälskelser generellt.« | ÅSA BECKMAN, DN»Originell och uppriktig. En enastående roman.« | FINANCIAL TIMES»En mästerlig skildring av utsatt kärlek.« | THE INDEPENDENT»Med drivet hos en thriller, men med ett romantiskt bildspråk. Kräver att bli läst långt inpå natten med brinnande ögon och rusande hjärta.« | VAL McDERMID

»Patricia Highsmiths Carol är en utsökt febrig kärlekshistoria med en perfekt inledningsscen bland varuhusets julglitter.« Vald till en av 2016 års bästa böcker | PHILIP TEIR, DNTherese Belivet, 19, drömmer om att bli scenograf och jobbar extra i en leksaksaffär. En dag expedierar hon en elegant kvinna och tillsammans hittar de en julklapp åt kvinnans dotter. Kvinnans namn är Carol Aird. Therese får impulsen att skicka henne ett julkort, vilket blir början på en passionerad kärleksaffär - men som också gör att Carol riskerar förlora vårdnaden av sin dotter. Maken har hyrt en privatdetektiv som förföljer kvinnorna och buggar dem.Patricia Highsmith publicerade Carol 1952 med titeln The Price of Salt och bakom pseudonymen Claire Morgan. Förlagets beskrivning på omslaget löd: »Romanen om en kärlek samhället förbjuder«. Fyrtio år senare trycktes romanen igen, med titeln Carol och i Patricia Highsmiths eget namn. I den hyllade filmen baserad på Patricia Highsmiths bok - i regi av Todd Haynes - spelar Cate Blanchett Carol och Rooney Mara gestaltar Therese. Vid premiärvisningen på Cannes Filmfestival fick filmen en tio minuter lång stående ovation av den samlade presskåren och den har därefter fått mer än 250 nomineringar och vunnit över 70 internationella filmpriser.PATRICIA HIGHSMITH [1921 - 1995], född i Fort Worth, Texas, är en av den amerikanska litteraturens stora författare. Highsmith är mest berömd för sina psykologiska thrillers om Tom Ripley - men litteraturhistorien har också kommit att värdera hennes debutroman Främlingar på ett tåg [Strangers on a Train, 1950] och den lesbiska kärleksromanen Carol [1952] högt. 2015 hade storfilmen Carol premiär i Cannes, regisserad av Todd Haynes och med Cate Blanchett i rollen som Carol och Rooney Mara som Therese. »Helt fantastiskt bra!« | SOFIA JONSSON, EN FÖRBANNAD PODD»Patricia Highsmith berättar sin passionerade historia med subtil elegans och klar blick. Den liksom lojt återhållna och precisa stilen laddar varje till synes trivialt ord eller gest med betydelse.« | EVA JOHANSSON, SVD»Det säger något om Highsmiths skicklighet som författare att hon så tidigt inte bara skriver en bok med ett ärende, som flyttar fram föreställningen om vilken typ av kärlek som ryms i en kärleksroman, utan dessutom gör den så rik att den når psykologiska skikt som finns i kärlek och förälskelser generellt.« | ÅSA BECKMAN, DN»Originell och uppriktig. En enastående roman.« | FINANCIAL TIMES»En mästerlig skildring av utsatt kärlek.« | THE INDEPENDENT»Med drivet hos en thriller, men med ett romantiskt bildspråk. Kräver att bli läst långt inpå natten med brinnande ögon och rusande hjärta.« | VAL McDERMID

A BEAUTIFUL NEW EDITION OF THE BELOVED, CLASSIC LOVE STORYTherese is just an ordinary sales assistant working in a New York department store when a beautiful, alluring woman in her thirties walks up to her counter. Standing there, shy, inexperienced Therese is wholly unprepared for the first shock of love. Therese is an awkward, dissatisfied nineteen-year-old with a job she hates and a boyfriend she doesn't love; Carol is a sophisticated, bored suburban housewife in the throes of a divorce and a custody battle for her only daughter. As Therese becomes irresistibly drawn into Carol's world, she soon realizes how much they both stand to lose...First published pseudonymously in 1952 as The Price of Salt, Carol is a hauntingly atmospheric story of forbidden yearning, heartbreak and potency of desire, set against the backdrop of fifties' New York.

Relegated to the genre of mystery during her lifetime, Patricia Highsmith is now recognized as one of "our greatest modernist writers" (Gore Vidal). Beloved by fans who were unaware of the real psychological turmoil behind her prose, the famously secretive Highsmith refused to authorize a biography, instead sequestering herself in her Switzerland home in her final years. Posthumously, her devoted editor Anna von Planta discovered her diaries and notebooks in 1995, tucked in a closet--with tantalizing instructions to be read.For years thereafter, von Planta meticulously culled from over eight thousand pages to help reveal the inscrutable figure behind the legendary pen. Beginning with her junior year at Barnard in 1941, Highsmith ritualistically kept a diary and notebook--the former to catalog her day, the latter to brainstorm stories and hone her craft. This volume weaves diary and notebook simultaneously, exhibiting precisely how Highsmith's personal affairs seeped into her fiction--and the sheer darkness of her own imagination.Charming yet teetering on the egotistical, young "Pat" lays bare her dizzying social life in 1940s Greenwich Village, barhopping with Judy Holliday and Jane Bowles, among others. Alongside Flannery O'Conner and Chester Himes, she attended--at the recommendation of Truman Capote--the Yaddo artist colony in 1948, where she drafted Strangers on a Train. Published in 1950 and soon adapted by Alfred Hitchcock, this debut novel brought recognition and brief financial security, but left a heartsick Highsmith agonizing: "What is the life I choose?"Providing extraordinary insights into gender and sexuality in mid-twentieth-century America, Highsmith's diaries convey her euphoria writing The Price of Salt (1951). Yet her sophomore novel would have to be published under a pseudonym, so as not to tarnish her reputation. Indeed, no one could anticipate commercial reception for a novel depicting love between two women in the McCarthy era. Seeking relief from America, Highsmith catalogs her peripatetic years in Europe, subsisting on cigarettes and growing more bigoted and satirical with age. After a stay in Positano with a new lover, she reflects in her notebooks on being an expat, and gleefully conjures the unforgettable The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955); it would be this sociopathic antihero who would finally solidify her true fame.At once lovable, detestable, and mesmerizing, Highsmith put her turbulent life to paper for five decades, acutely aware there must be "a few usable things in literature." A memoir as significant in our own century as Sylvia Plath's journals and Simone de Beauvoir's writings were to another time, Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks is an historic work that chronicles a woman's rise against the conventional tide to unparalleled literary prominence.

For the first time Patricia Highsmith's acclaimed short stories have been collected in one volume

WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY VAL McDERMID Therese is just an ordinary sales assistant working in a New York department store when a beautiful, alluring woman in her thirties walks up to her counter. Standing there, Therese is wholly unprepared for the first shock of love. Therese is an awkward nineteen-year-old with a job she hates and a boyfriend she doesn't love; Carol is a sophisticated, bored suburban housewife in the throes of a divorce and a custody battle for her only daughter. As Therese becomes irresistibly drawn into Carol's world, she soon realizes how much they both stand to lose...First published pseudonymously in 1952 as The Price of Salt, Carol is a hauntingly atmospheric love story set against the backdrop of fifties' New York.

'My secrets - the secrets that everyone has - are here, in black and white.'Before Alfred Hitchcock adapted her debut novel, Strangers on a Train, for the big screen; before Thomas Ripley snaked his way into the canon of psychological suspense; before Carol became a cult classic of romantic obsession, who was Patricia Highsmith?Beginning in 1941 and encompassing Highsmith's adventurous twenties, The New York Years is an intimate self-portrait of a young artist, reading voraciously and honing her craft, intertwined with scenes from her dizzying social life, rife with sleepless nights spent in the queer bars of Greenwich Village.This condensed edition of Highsmith's monumental Diaries and Notebooks offers all the pleasures of her fiction, along with an unparalleled insight into the life, mind and times of this enigmatic, iconic, trailblazing author. 'One of the most observant and ecstatic accounts . . . about being young and alive in New York City' New York Times

Before Alfred Hitchcock adapted her debut novel, Strangers on a Train, for the big screen; before her suave and sociopathic Thomas Ripley snaked his way into the canon of psychological suspense; and before The Price of Salt became a cult classic of romantic obsession, who was Patricia Highsmith? Focused on her formative years in Manhattan, this condensed edition of Highsmith's monumental Diaries and Notebooks reveals "Pat" at her most passionate and florescent. Beginning in 1941 at Barnard College and encompassing the Texas native's adventurous twenties, ?The New York Years intertwines scenes from her dizzying social life--rife with sleepless nights barhopping in the queer underground Greenwich Village scene, always juggling too many lovers--with an intimate self-portrait of a young artist who by day dispassionately wrote comics for a paycheck. Amid all the hangovers and the breakups, she read voraciously and honed her craft with verve. Laid bare in this perennial reader's edition are the bold, hilarious, romantic, tragic, and maddeningly contradictory observations of one of "our greatest modernist writers" (Gore Vidal).

Found in the Street is a haunting psychological thriller, by the bestselling queen of the genre, in which there is only a breath between nightmare and reality.

Edith's Diary is not a thriller, but a tautly written tale of one ordinary woman whose life is slipping out of control and whose grip on reality is loosening. It is considered by many to be Highsmith's masterpiece.

First published in 1953, The Blunderer is often hailed as Highsmith's finest novel, about the rise and fall of a faithful suburban husband who plots his wife's demise in fantasies gruesome and eerily serene.

Tom Ripley has a lovely house in the French countryside, a beautiful and very rich wife, and an art collection worthy of a connoisseur. But this gracious life has not come easily; it is based on murder, forgery, and smuggling, and could topple at any moment.

For more than four decades, Patricia Highsmith has developed her unique mastery of suspense - not least in her renowned cycle of novels featuring Tom Ripley. Now, with the fifth in that series and her first new novel in five years, she demonstrates yet again her ability, as Graham Greene wrote, "to create a world of her own, a world claustrophobic and irrational which we enter each time with a sense of personal danger." Though his talent for evil has in no way diminished, Tom Ripley has aged, even mellowed. Now leading the good life in the French countryside, complete with chic wife and devoted housekeeper, he is more interested in his wine stores than the bloodstains on the cellar floor. Then a meddlesome American couple takes up residence in the same village. Though at first the Pritchards seem a mere curiosity, their taste as execrable as their manners, they are annoyingly well informed about incidents in Ripley's past and almost smug about flaunting their knowledge. This, of course, disturbs the tranquillity of the charmed, cultured life for which Tom has worked so hard, and he has no choice but to bedevil the Pritchards in return. Thus begins a spirited, sophisticated game of cat and mouse that leads to Tangier and London and back again, to the pond behind the Pritchards' house. It is Ripley at his most suave and devious - and Patricia Highsmith in peak form. For her aficionados, Ripley Under Water is utterly essential - and for readers new to her work, a spectacular introduction to "a natural novelist" (John Gross, The New York Times).

Living on his posh French estate with his elegant heiress wife, Tom Ripley, on the cusp of middle age, is no longer the striving comer of The Talented Mr. Ripley. Having accrued considerable wealth through a long career of crime forgery, extortion, serial murder Ripley still finds his appetite unquenched and longs to get back in the game. In Ripley's Game, first published in 1974, Patricia Highsmith's classic chameleon relishes the opportunity to simultaneously repay an insult and help a friend commit a crime and escape the doldrums of his idyllic retirement. This third novel in Highsmith's series is one of her most psychologically nuanced particularly memorable for its dark, absurd humor and was hailed by critics for its ability to manipulate the tropes of the genre. With the creation of Ripley, one of literature's most seductive sociopaths, Highsmith anticipated the likes of Norman Bates and Hannibal Lecter years before their appearance."

Since his debut in 1955, Tom Ripley has evolved into the ultimate bad boy sociopath, influencing countless novelists and filmmakers. 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 grows enraged by Dickie's ambivalent feelings for Marge, a charming American dilettante. A dark reworking of Henry James's The Ambassadors, The Talented Mr. Ripley—immortalized in the 1998 film starring Matt Damon, Jude Law, and Gywneth Paltrow—is an unforgettable introduction to this debonair confidence man, whose talent for self-invention and calculated murder is chronicled in four subsequent novels.

From the late mistress of suspense and noir fiction comes a chilling anthology of short fiction, featuring works from five of her classic short story collections combined into a single anthology. By the author of The Talented Mr. Ripley. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

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 newcomer, Rickie and the apprentice retaliate with humorous results. Reprint.10,000 first printing.

Trapped in a boring, dead-end day job in a department store, stage designer Therese Belivet finds her life forever changed when she encounters--and falls in love with--Carol Aird, an alluring suburban housewife in the midst of a divorce, as they set out on a cross-country odyssey, pursued by a private investigator who forces Carol into choosing between her daughter and her lover. Reprint. 13,000 first printing.