Patricia Highsmith
Found in the Street
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A chilling novel of desire and obsession in 1980s New York from the author who can change reality to nightmare with one well-turned phrase (Cleveland Plain Dealer).Elsie Tyler turns heads wherever she goes. After leaving her upstate hometown for Greenwich Village, the charming young waitress soon finds herself surrounded by admirers, including Jack and Natalia Sutherland, a married couple who invite Elsie into their bohemian inner circle and help her launch a career as a model. Meanwhile, Ralph Linderman, a middle-aged security guard with a dog named God, is nursing his own obsession with Elsie. He sets out to protect her from the bad company…
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A chilling novel of desire and obsession in 1980s New York from the author who can change reality to nightmare with one well-turned phrase (Cleveland Plain Dealer).Elsie Tyler turns heads wherever she goes. After leaving her upstate hometown for Greenwich Village, the charming young waitress soon finds herself surrounded by admirers, including Jack and Natalia Sutherland, a married couple who invite Elsie into their bohemian inner circle and help her launch a career as a model. Meanwhile, Ralph Linderman, a middle-aged security guard with a dog named God, is nursing his own obsession with Elsie. He sets out to protect her from the bad company she attracts, but his uninvited affections are overbearing, possibly even pathological. When Ralph finds Jack's wallet on a morning stroll through the Village, and returns it, he is entirely unprepared for the complex maze of sexual obsession and disturbing psychological intrigue he is about to be drawn into.Found in the Streetis classic Highsmith-an engrossing, unsettling thriller that explores the bleakest alleyways of human desire, and a kaleidoscopic portrait of 1980s New York City. Patricia Highsmith, author ofStrangers on a TrainandThe Talented Mr. Ripley, has been called one of the finest crime novelists by theNew York Times-and is now considered one of the most original voices in twentieth-century American fiction.
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Weitere Autoren: McCullin, Don
- ISBN: 978-0-8021-8995-0
- EAN: 9780802189950
- Produktnummer: 21833143
- Verlag: Grove Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 384 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 725 KB
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Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) was the author of more than twenty novels, including Strangers on a Train, The Price of Salt, and The Talented Mr. Ripley, as well as numerous short stories.
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