People Who Knock On the Door - Softcover

Highsmith, Patricia

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9780140067415: People Who Knock On the Door

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ISBN 10: 0140067418 ISBN 13: 9780140067415

Publisher: Penguin, 1984

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From the author of THE BOY WHO FOLLOWED RIPLEY and FOUND IN THE STREET, a story telling of how the members of an apparently ordinary family react to forces beyond their control, and how their different reactions create tensions between them.

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Book Description:

People Who Knock on the Door, is a tale about blind faith and the slippery notion of justice that lies beneath the peculiarly American veneer of righteousness.

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.

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