The Cry of the Owl - Hardcover

Highsmith, Patricia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 043433507X ISBN 13: 9780434335077

Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd, 1968

Synopsis

From the author of PEOPLE WHO KNOCK ON THE DOOR, a reissue of a novel in which Robert Forester does not look like the kind of man to be a prowler, although his ex-wife tells the police he is erratic and liable to violence.

About this title

About the Author

Patricia Highsmith was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1921. Her parents moved to New York when she was six, and she attended the Julia Richmond High School and Barnard College. In her senior year she edited the college magazine, having decided to become a writer at the age of sixteen. Her first novel, Strangers on a Train, was made into a famous film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. The Talented Mr Ripley, published in 1955, was awarded the Edgar Allen Poe Scroll by the Mystery Writers of America. Patricia Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland in 1995. Her last novel Small g: A Summer Idyll was published posthumously just over a month later.

Review

"Patricia Highsmith has an extraordinary talent for the sinister, and this is well revealed in The Cry of the Owl, one of her finest novels" -- Robert Nye * Guardian * "Patricia Highsmith is a craftsman who has made the suspense novel her own domain" * The Times * "The basic nightmare situation - to be accused of a crime you did not commit and be unable to prove your innocence- is the subject of The Cry of the Owl... It's Kafka with a vengeance... compulsive" * Spectator * "A rare talent, a remarkable novelist... her books are written in elegant and lucid prose" -- John Mortimer

Edition details

• Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd
• Publication date: 1968
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 043433507X
• ISBN 13: 9780434335077
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288