A Game for the Living - Softcover

Highsmith, Patricia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0871132109 ISBN 13: 9780871132109

Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1994

Synopsis

Ramón mends furniture. Theodore paints. A devout Catholic, Ramón lives in Mexico City, not far from where he was born into poverty. Theodore, a rich German transplanted to a country where money buys some comfort but no peace, believes in nothing at all. You’d think the two had nothing in common. Except, of course, that both had slept with Lelia. The two were good friends, so neither minded sharing her affections. They did mind, however, when Lelia was found raped, murdered, and horribly mutilated. The two friends, suspects both, twist in a limbo of tension and doubt, each seeking his own form of solace and truth.

About this title

About the Author:

Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) was born in Fort Worth, Texas. Her first novel, Strangers on a Train, was made into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. The Talented Mr Ripley, published in 1955, introduced the fascinating anti-hero Tom Ripley, and was made into an Oscar-winning film in 1999 by Anthony Minghella. Graham Greene called Patricia Highsmith 'the poet of apprehension', saying that she 'created a world of her own - a world claustrophobic and irrational which we enter each time with a sense of personal danger'. Patricia Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland, in February 1995. Her last novel, Small g: A Summer Idyll, was published posthumously, the same year.

Review:

I love Highsmith so much . . . What a revelation her writing is -- Gillian Flynn

About this edition

• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0871132109
• ISBN 13: 9780871132109
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 282