People Who Knock on the Door - Hardcover

Highsmith, Patricia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0892961376 ISBN 13: 9780892961375

Publisher: Mysterious Pr, 1985

Synopsis

Richard Alderman's decision to become a born-again Christian insidiously disrupts the lives of his teenage son Arthur who rejects the church; younger son Robbie, who adopts his father's views; and his wife Lois, hopelessly caught in the middle of the conflict

About this title

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mysterious Pr
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0892961376
• ISBN 13: 9780892961375
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1