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Zustand: Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Zustand: Good. Good condition.

Zustand: Like New. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind.

Paperback. Zustand: Fine.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Never has contemporary fiction been more widely discussed and passionately analysed; recent years have seen a huge growth in the number of reading groups and in the interest of a non-academic readership in the discussion of how novels work. Drawing on his weekly Guardian column, 'Elements of Fiction', John Mullan examines novels mostly of the last ten years, many of which have become firm favourites with reading groups. He reveals the rich resources of novelistic technique, setting recent fiction alongside classics of the past. Nick Hornby's adoption of a female narrator is compared to Daniel Defoe's; Ian McEwan's use of weather is set against Austen's and Hardy's; Carole Shield's chapter divisions are likened to Fanny Burney's. Each section shows how some basic element of fiction is used. Some topics (like plot, dialogue, or location) will appear familiar to most novel readers; others (metanarrative, prolepsis, amplification) will open readers' eyes to new ways of understanding and appreciating the writer's craft. How Novels Work explains how the pleasures of novel reading often come from the formal ingenuity of the novelist. It is an entertaining and stimulating exploration of that ingenuity. Addressed to anyone who is interested in the close reading of fiction, it makes visible techniques and effects we are often only half-aware of as we read. It shows that literary criticism is something that all fiction enthusiasts can do. Contemporary novels discussed include: Monica Ali's Brick Lane; Martin Amis's Money; Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin; A.S. Byatt's Possession; Jonathan Coe's The Rotters' Club; J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace; Michael Cunningham's The Hours; Don DeLillo's Underworld; Michel Faber's The Crimson Petal and the White; Ian Fleming's From Russia with Love; Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections; Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time; Patricia Highsmith's Ripley under Ground; Alan Hollinghurst's The Spell; Nick Hornby's How to Be Good; Ian McEwan's Atonement; John le Carre's The Constant Gardener; Andrea Levy's Small Island; David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas; Andrew O'Hagan's Personality; Orhan Pamuk's My Name Is Red; Ann Patchett's Bel Canto; Ruth Rendell's Adam and Eve and Pinch Me; Philip Roth's The Human Stain; Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated; Carol Shields's Unless; Zadie Smith's White Teeth; Muriel Spark's Aiding and Abetting; Graham Swift's Last Orders; Donna Tartt's The Secret History; William Trevor's The Hill Bachelors; and Richard Yates's Revolutionary Road . The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Zustand: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.

Hardback. Zustand: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY, CAROL AND STRANGERS ON A TRAIN 'Bears Highsmith's unique, unsurpassed mixture of unsettling psychological insights' THE TIMES 'The original, the best, the gloriously twisted Queen of Suspense' MARK BILLINGHAM 'Highsmith's novels are peerlessly disturbing . . . bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night' NEW YORKER Sydney Bartleby has killed his wife. At least, he has thought about it, compulsively, repeatedly, plotting schemes, designing escapes, forging alibis. Of course he has; he's a thriller writer. He even knows how to dispose of her body. But when Alicia takes a long, unannounced holiday, Sydney descends into the treacherous world of his own fantasy. A masterpiece of noir fantasy in which Highsmith revels in eliciting the unsettling psychological forces that lurk beneath the surface of everyday life. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY, CAROL AND STRANGERS ON A TRAIN 'Highsmith writes about men like a spider writing about flies' OBSERVER 'For eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there's no one like Patricia Highsmith' TIME 'The Glass Cell has lost little of its disturbing power . . . Highsmith was a genuine one-off' DAILY TELEGRAPH Based on a true story, The Glass Cell is Highsmith's deeply disturbing fictionalisation of everything she learned. Falsely convicted of fraud, the easy-going but naive Philip Carter is sent to prison. Despite his devotion to Hazel, his wife, and the support of David Sullivan, a lawyer and friend who tries to avenge the injustice done to him, Carter endures six lonely and drug-ravaged years. Upon his release, Carter is a much more discerning, suspicious, and violent man. His beautiful wife is waiting for him. He has never had any reason to doubt her. For those around him, earning back his trust can mean the difference between life and death. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 'As if Donna Tartt, Gillian Flynn and Patricia Highsmith had collaborated in a screenplay to be filmed by Hitchcock - suspenseful and atmospheric' Joyce Carol Oates The perfect read for fans of Daphne du Maurier and Patricia Highsmith, set in 1950s Morocco, Tangerine is a gripping psychological literary thriller. The last person Alice Shipley expected to see since arriving in Tangier with her new husband was Lucy Mason. After the horrific accident at Bennington, the two friends - once inseparable roommates - haven't spoken in over a year. But Lucy is standing there, trying to make things right. Perhaps Alice should be happy. She has not adjusted to life in Morocco, too afraid to venture out into the bustling medinas and oppressive heat. Lucy, always fearless and independent, helps Alice emerge from her flat and explore the country. But soon a familiar feeling starts to overtake Alice - she feels controlled and stifled by Lucy at every turn. Then Alice's husband, John, goes missing, and Alice starts to question everything around her: her relationship with her enigmatic friend, her decision to ever come to Tangier, and her very own state of mind. Tangerine is an extraordinary debut, so tightly wound, so evocative of 1950s Tangier, and so cleverly plotted that it will leave you absolutely breathless. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. My New Years Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle may they never give me peace PATRICIA HIGHSMITH (New Years Eve, 1947) Made famous by the great success of her psychological thrillers, The Talented Mr Ripley and Strangers on a Train, Patricia Highsmith is lauded as one of the most influential and celebrated modern writers. However, there has never been a clear picture of the woman behind the books. The relationship between Highsmiths lesbianism, her fraught personality by parts self-destructive and malicious and her fiction, has been largely avoided by biographers. She was openly homosexual and wrote the seminal lesbian love story, Carol. In modern times, she would be venerated as a radical exponent of the LGBT community. However, her status as an LGBT icon is undermined by the fact that she was excessively cruel and exploitative of her friends and lovers. In this new biography, Richard Bradford brings his sharp, incisive style to one of the great and most controversial writers of the twentieth century. He considers Highsmiths bestsellers in the context of her troubled personal life; her alcoholism, licentious sex life, racism, anti-Semitism, misogyny and abundant self-loathing. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Never has contemporary fiction been more widely discussed and passionately analysed; recent years have seen a huge growth in the number of reading groups and in the interest of a non-academic readership in the discussion of how novels work. Drawing on his weekly Guardian column, 'Elements of Fiction', John Mullan examines novels mostly of the last ten years, many of which have become firm favourites with reading groups. He reveals the rich resources of novelistic technique, setting recent fiction alongside classics of the past. Nick Hornby's adoption of a female narrator is compared to Daniel Defoe's; Ian McEwan's use of weather is set against Austen's and Hardy's; Carole Shield's chapter divisions are likened to Fanny Burney's. Each section shows how some basic element of fiction is used. Some topics (like plot, dialogue, or location) will appear familiar to most novel readers; others (metanarrative, prolepsis, amplification) will open readers' eyes to new ways of understanding and appreciating the writer's craft. How Novels Work explains how the pleasures of novel reading often come from the formal ingenuity of the novelist. It is an entertaining and stimulating exploration of that ingenuity. Addressed to anyone who is interested in the close reading of fiction, it makes visible techniques and effects we are often only half-aware of as we read. It shows that literary criticism is something that all fiction enthusiasts can do. Contemporary novels discussed include: Monica Ali's Brick Lane; Martin Amis's Money; Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin; A.S. Byatt's Possession; Jonathan Coe's The Rotters' Club; J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace; Michael Cunningham's The Hours; Don DeLillo's Underworld; Michel Faber's The Crimson Petal and the White; Ian Fleming's From Russia with Love; Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections; Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time; Patricia Highsmith's Ripley under Ground; Alan Hollinghurst's The Spell; Nick Hornby's How to Be Good; Ian McEwan's Atonement; John le Carre's The Constant Gardener; Andrea Levy's Small Island; David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas; Andrew O'Hagan's Personality; Orhan Pamuk's My Name Is Red; Ann Patchett's Bel Canto; Ruth Rendell's Adam and Eve and Pinch Me; Philip Roth's The Human Stain; Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated; Carol Shields's Unless; Zadie Smith's White Teeth; Muriel Spark's Aiding and Abetting; Graham Swift's Last Orders; Donna Tartt's The Secret History; William Trevor's The Hill Bachelors; and Richard Yates's Revolutionary Road. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Zustand: Like New. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind.

Zustand: Muy bueno. : Stories es una colección de narrativa breve norteamericana, editada por Francesc Vernet y publicada por RBA La Magrana en 2000. Este libro de bolsillo de 252 páginas presenta una selección de relatos de autores como Ray Bradbury, Truman Capote, Raymond Carver, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Patricia Highsmith, David Leavitt, Joyce Carol Oates, Katherine Anne Porter y John Updike. La obra está escrita en catalán y forma parte de la serie 'Otros La Magrana'. EAN: 9788474109016 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Literatura y Ficción Título: Stories Autor: Francesc Vernet Editorial: RBA La Magrana Idioma: ca Páginas: 252 Formato: tapa blanda.

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Zustand: acceptable. Ausreichend/Acceptable: Exemplar mit vollständigem Text und sämtlichen Abbildungen oder Karten. Schmutztitel oder Vorsatz können fehlen. Einband bzw. Schutzumschlag weisen unter Umständen starke Gebrauchsspuren auf. / Describes a book or dust jacket that has the complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc. (which must be noted). Binding, dust jacket (if any), etc may also be worn.

Zustand: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Zustand: Aceptable. : 184pp, Sobre la autora:: Patricia Highsmith (Fort Worth, Texas, 19 de enero de 1921 - Locarno, Suiza, 4 de febrero de 1995) fue una novelista estadounidense famosa por sus obras de suspense.La temática de la obra de Patricia Highsmith se centra en torno a la culpa, la mentira y el crimen, y sus personajes, muy bien caracterizados, suelen estar cerca de la psicopatía y se mueven en la frontera misma entre el bien y el mal. Esto es muy notorio en su primera novela publicada, Extraños en un tren (de 1950), que fue llevada un año después al cine por Alfred Hitchcock con el mismo título y cuyo guion fue adaptadado por Raymond Chandler . La visión de la realidad que se desprende de sus novelas y cuentos es depresiva, pesimista y sombría, como también su concepto sobre el ser humano. Algunas de sus novelas incluyen referencias homosexuales; su novela Carol, que sus editores rechazaron por su temática lésbica, fue publicada bajo el pseudónimo Claire Morgan en 1953 y vendió cerca de un millón de ejemplares. En su última novela publicada, Small g, un idilio de verano (de forma póstuma un mes después de su fallecimiento), se trata nuevamente la temática homosexual, esta vez en torno a la presentación de una serie de relaciones equivocadas. Highsmith, cuyo estilo se presenta tan económico como el de Guy de Maupassant, al que admiraba, destaca especialmente como creadora de personajes, especialmente marginales. Busca la polémica y le atrae especialmente la ambigüedad moral: sus héroes suelen ser personajes turbios y ambiguos que explotan la hipocresía social para ascender socialmente. Su obra se compone de una veintena de novelas, un gran número de relatos y un ensayo, El arte del suspense. Su amigo Graham Greene dijo sobre ella: "Uno no cesa de releerla. Ha creado un mundo original, cerrado, irracional, opresivo, donde no penetramos sino con un sentimiento personal de peligro y casi a pesar nuestro, pues tenemos enfrente un placer mezclado con escalofrío". Alabada por la crític EAN: 9788432037641 Tipo: Libros Título: Once Historias de Terror, Misterio y Crueldad Llenas de Un Extraño Atractivo Autor: Patricia Highsmith Editorial: Planeta; 1ª Ed edición (1 enero 1983) Formato: Tapa blanda Año de publicación: 1983.

Hardcover. Zustand: Gut. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Leichtere Gebrauchsspuren. 1. Auflage. OPpbd.m.SU.; 4°; Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren: etwas bestoßen und unten etwas eingerissen; Buch ansonsten gut, innen sehr gut. 103 Ss. - 15 Meister-Erzählungen mit fantastischen Illustrationen: Patricia Highsmith/Petit Roulet - Max Goldt/Michael Sowa - Harold Brodkey/Lorenzo Mattotti - Viktorija Torkarjewa/Nicolas de Crécy - Andrzej Szczypiorski/Bernd Mölck-Tassel - Joyce Carol Oates/M.S. Bastian - Siegfried Lenz/Lorenzo Mattotti - John Irving/Andrea Caprez - Stanislaw Lem/Guido Sieber - Jakob Arjouni/Frank Flöthmann - Rita Mae Brown/Martin Haake - Harry Mulisch/Martin Tom Dieck - Vladimir Sorokin/Guido Sieber - Margriet de Moor/Olaf Hajek - Ingrid Noll/Anke Feuchtenberger.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Sehr gut. Gebraucht - Sehr gut Leichte Lagerspuren -A tense, stunningly well-observed heist novel following an American woman on the run in the blazing heat of Bangkok, from 'a modern Graham Greene' (Sunday Times) Sarah Talbot Jennings, a young American living in New York, has fled to Bangkok to disappear. Arriving with a suitcase containing $200,000, she rents an apartment at the Kingdom, a glittering high-end complex slowly sinking into its own twilight - and run by conveniently discreet staff. In Bangkok's shocking heat Sarah meets the beguiling Mali, a half-Thai tenant who's strangely determined to bring the quiet American out of her shell. An invitation to Mali's poker nights soon follows, where - fuelled by shots of yadong, gossip of shady dealings in the city and the hit of marijuana - Sarah is drawn into the orbit of the Kingdom's glamorous ex-pat women.But when an attempted military coup wracks the streets below and Sarah witnesses something unspeakable through one of the Kingdom's windows, only to be followed by a series of strange disappearances, Sarah's safe haven begins to feel like a trap.From a master of atmosphere and suspense, The Glass Kingdom is a brilliantly unsettling story of cruelty and psychological unrest, and an enthralling glimpse into the shadowy crossroads of karma and human greed. 304 pp. Englisch.

Zustand: VERY GOOD. 1st thus - a large trade paperback. A collection of 46 mystery stories from O. Henry in 1903 and Willa Cather in 1905 to Tom Franklin in 1998 and Dennis Lehane in 1999. Includes selections from Dashiell Hammet, James M. Cain, Raymond Chandler, John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, Joyce Carol Oates, Shirley Jackson, Flannery O'Connor, Sue Grafton Stephen King, James Crumley Brendan DuBois, Patricia Highsmith, Sara Paretsky, Dennis LeHane, Steven Greenleaf and more. Preface by series editor Otto Penzler and introduction by Tony Hillerman. Biographical notes.xviii, 813 pp. Fine in glossy printed wrappers.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 'It promises to be one of the literary highlights of 2021 - publication of the diaries of Patricia Highsmith, one of the most conflicted, fascinating novelists of the 20th century' Edward Helmore, Guardian 'My secrets-the secrets that everyone has-are here, in black and white.' Published for the very first time for the centenary of her birth, Patricia Highsmith's diaries and notebooks offer an unparalleled, unforgettable insight into the life and mind of one of the 20th century's most talented, complex and fascinating writers. Posthumously discovered in Highsmith's linen cupboard and edited down from 56 thick spiral notebooks by her devoted editor, Anna Von Planta, this one-volume assemblage of her diaries and notebooks traces Highsmith's mesmerising double life. The diaries show Highsmith's unwavering literary ambitions - coming often at huge personal sacrifice. We see her writing the books that would make her name, including the Ripley novels which mark the apotheosis of the psychological thriller, and The Price of Salt (later adapted into the 2015 film Carol), one of the first mainstream novels to depict two women in love. In these pages, we see Highsmith reflecting on good and evil, loneliness and intimacy, sexuality and sacrifice, love and murder. We see her tumultuous romantic relationships play out alongside her acquaintances with other writers including Jane Bowles, Aaron Copland, John Gielgud, Truman Capote, Carson McCullers, Arthur Koestler, and W. H. Auden. And in her skewering of McCarthy-era America, her prickly disparagement of contemporary art, her fixation on love and writing, and ever-percolating prejudices, we see the famously secretive Highsmith revealing the roots of her psychological angst and acuity. Written in her inimitable and dazzling prose and offering all the pleasures of Highsmith's novels, these are one of the most compulsively readable literary diaries to be published in generations - and yield, at last an unparalleled, unfiltered, unforgettable picture of this enigmatic, iconic, trailblazing author's true self. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Zustand: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Softcover. Zustand: Befriedigend. 539 Seiten - Gabriele Wohmann - Schöne Ferien, Heinrich Böll - Es wird etwas geschehen, Doris Lessing - Die Frau auf dem Dach, Stephen King - Der Textcomputer der Götter, Christine Brückner - Wann wenn nicht jetzt, Peter Härtling - Der wiederholte Unfall oder Die Fortsetzung eines Unglücks, Utta Danella - Liebe, Will Heinrich - Vergebliche Liebe, Günter Kunert - Reisesucht, Eugen Roth - Daheimbleiben, Max Frisch - Reisen, Ernest Hemingway - Menschen im Sommer, O'Henry - Der Mann über mir, Umberto Eco - Die Stadt der Automaten, John Steinbeck - Flucht, Truman Capote - Das Blumenhaus, Eugen Roth - Billige Reise, Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Das Meer der verlorenen Zeit, Isaac B Singer - Hanka, Nadine Gordimer - Das Füllhorn, Rudyard Kipling - In der Blüte der Jugend, Graham Greene - Der unzüchtige Film, W Somerset Maugham - Fata Morgana, Ephraim Kishon - Seid nett zu Touristen, Ludwig Harig - Die Urlaubsbräune, Karl Valentin - Neues vom Starnberger See, Joyce Carol Oates - Der Mord, Alberto Moravia - Hände um den Hals, Roald Dahl - Die Wirtin, Raymond Chandler - Ich werde warten, Morris L West - Der Geist der Rose, Kurt Tucholsky - Die Kunst falsch zu reisen, Patricia Highsmith - Mrs. Afton kommt zum Arzt, Jaroslav Hasek - Schwejk zieht in den Krieg, Luise Rinser - Eine dunkle Geschichte, Henry Miller - Hin und her in China, P.G. Wodehouse - Archibalds ehrfürchtiges Werben, Alistair Maclean - St.Georg und der Drachen, Christian Morgenstern - Das Knie, Italo Calvino - Der nackte Busen, Mark Twain - Kannibalismus auf der Eisenbahn, Heinrich Mann - Liebesspiele, Joseph Roth - Reise mit einer schönen Frau, Siegfried Lenz - Eine Kleinbahn namens Popp, Joachim Ringelnatz - Die Ameisen, Ursula K Leguin - Die Länder unserer Phantasie, Anthony Burgess - Die Muse, Erich Kästner - Weltreise durchs Zimmer, Günter Grass - Meine grüne Wiese, Wolf Wondratschek - In den Autos, Otto Heinrich Kühner - Zimmer am Piz Palü, Marie Luise Kaschnitz - Die Reise nach Jerusalem, Kurt Tucholsky - Zurück vom Urlaub.

Zustand: FINE. First printing. Contains trenchant pieces, always worth reading. on Doctorow, Willa Cather, Patricia Highsmith, Ishiguro, Hilary Mantel, Sylvia Plath, Richard Yates, Pat Barker, Michael Connelly and a lot more writers, popular or literary. xiii, 367 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.