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Deep Water: The compulsive classic thriller from the author of THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY
Patricia Highsmith
Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Crime & mystery, Classic crime, Thriller / suspense, Romance
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- Paperback May 8, 2018 | 9780349010328 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Paperback Jul 14, 2015 | 9780349006260 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Apr 13, 2017 | 9781405537247 | RRP $35.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Mar 6, 2014 | 9780349004709 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
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Virago
- Paperback May 8, 2018 | 9780349010328 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Paperback Jul 14, 2015 | 9780349006260 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Apr 13, 2017 | 9781405537247 | RRP $35.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Mar 6, 2014 | 9780349004709 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
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Imprint
Little, Brown Audio
- Paperback May 8, 2018 | 9780349010328 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Paperback Jul 14, 2015 | 9780349006260 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Apr 13, 2017 | 9781405537247 | RRP $35.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Mar 6, 2014 | 9780349004709 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
Play Sample0:00 -
Imprint
Virago
- Paperback May 8, 2018 | 9780349010328 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Paperback Jul 14, 2015 | 9780349006260 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Apr 13, 2017 | 9781405537247 | RRP $35.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Mar 6, 2014 | 9780349004709 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
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To everyone around them, Melinda and Vic Van Allen are the perfect couple - young, wealthy and attractive. But when their love sours, their mind games reach a twisted, dangerous climax. Published as part of a beautifully designed series to mark the 40th anniversary of the Virago Modern Classics.
'If I really don't like somebody, I kill him . . . You remember Malcolm McRae, don't you?'
Melinda Van Allen is beautiful, headstrong and sexy. Unfortunately for Vic Van Allen, she is his wife. Their love has soured, and Melinda takes pleasure in flaunting her many affairs to her husband. When one of her lovers is murdered, Vic hints to her latest conquest that he was responsible. As rumours spread about Vic's vicious streak, fiction and reality start to converge. It's only a matter of time before Vic really does have blood on his hands.
Books included in the VMC 40th anniversary series include: Frost in May by Antonia White; The Collected Stories of Grace Paley; Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault; The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter; The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann; Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith; The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West; Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston; Heartburn by Nora Ephron; The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy; Memento Mori by Muriel Spark; A View of the Harbour by Elizabeth Taylor; and Faces in the Water by Janet Frame
Praise for Deep Water: The compulsive classic thriller from the author of THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY
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The outstanding merit of Deep Water is the dexterity with which it develops the psychopath's portrait from the first faint agreeable outline to the full dark horrific colours of schizophrenia. If you read crime stories at all or perhaps especially if you don't, you should read Deep Water. - Sunday Times
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An atmosphere of nameless dread, of unspeakable foreboding, permeates every page of Patricia Highsmith, and there's nothing quite like it. - Boston Globe
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My suspicion is that when the dust has settled and when the chronicle of 20th-century American literature comes to be written, history will place Highsmith at the top of the pyramid, as we should place Dostoevsky at the top of the Russian hierarchy of novelists - Daily Telegraph
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I love [Highsmith] so much . . . what a revelation her writing was - Gillian Flynn
Patricia Highsmith
Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and moved to New York when she was six. In her senior year, she edited the college magazine, having decided at the age of sixteen to become a writer. Her first novel, Strangers on a Train (1950), was made into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. The Talented Mr Ripley (1955), introduced the fascinating anti-hero Tom Ripley, and was made into an Oscar-winning film in 1999 by Anthony Minghella. Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland, in February 1995. Her last novel, Small g: A Summer Idyll, was published posthumously, the same year.
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