- Triangles (Interpersonal relations), Married women, Fiction, Fiction, psychological
David Kelsey is a brilliant young scientist who lives in a cheap boarding house and lives a double life. Every weekend David leaves to spend time with his ailing mother in a nursing home – or at least that's what he tells everyone.
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- Author
- Patricia Highsmith, Sarah Hilary
- First published
- 1960
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W., Heinemann, Calmann-Lévy
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- Italian, French, English
- ISBN
- 9780393345612
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“It was jealousy that kept David from sleeping, drove him from a tousled bed out of the dark and silent boardinghouse to walk the streets.”
Patricia Highsmith (January 19, 1921 – February 4, 1995) was an American novelist and short story writer widely known for her psychological thrillers, including her series of five novels featuring the character Tom Ripley. She wrote 22 novels and numerous short stories throughout her career spanning nearly five decades, and her work has led to more than two dozen film adaptations. Her writing derived influence from existentialist literature, and questioned notions of identity and popular morality. She was dubbed "the poet of apprehension" by novelist Graham Greene. Her first novel, *Strangers on a Train*, has been adapted for stage and screen, the best known being the Alfred Hitchcock film r
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