Patricia Highsmith

The Cry of the Owl

'Vintage Classics'. Sprache: Englisch.
kartoniert , 254 Seiten
ISBN 1784876801
EAN 9781784876807
Veröffentlicht April 2021
Verlag/Hersteller Random House UK Ltd
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Beschreibung

one of her finest novels' Guardian"If everybody in the world didn't keep watching to see what everybody else did, we'd all go berserk."Jenny believes that sighting an owl is a portent of death.

Portrait

Patricia Highsmith was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1921 but moved to new York when she was six. 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. Patricia Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland in 1995. Her last novel Small g: A Summer Idyll was published posthumously just over a month later.