Blue cloth, black cloth spine, title stamped in silver. Jean-Louis Trintignant starred as Vic, with Isabelle Huppert as Melinda, renamed Melanie and the 2022 film directed by Adrian Lyne starring Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas. First edition of Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith, in the first state dust jacket. And, it being a marital thriller where all the phobias and fears and darkness are based mostly inside a couple's home, that has always interested me, that in-your-face warfare between a husband and wife." It is the basis for the 1981 film by director Michel Deville into the film Eaux profondes, relocating the setting to France. It is Highsmiths fifth published novel, the. The Talented Mr Ripley, published in 1955, introduced the. I remember thinking, "Why has no one told me about it?" People know her for Ripley or Strangers on a Train but don't know a lot of her other stuff. Deep Water is a psychological thriller novel by Patricia Highsmith, first published in 1957 by Harper & Brothers. Her first novel, Strangers on a Train, was made into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Flynn stated: "About ten or fifteen years ago, I came across it in a used-book store.
Gillian Flynn has called the novel one of her favorites. Rare and desirable signed.Īnthony Boucher reviewing the novel in The New York Times, praised Highsmith's "coming of age as a novelist", and noted that Deep Water was "incomparably stronger in subtlety and depth of characterization" than her first novel, Strangers on a Train. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Very best wishes, Pat Highsmith.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket. $4,800.00 Item Number: 123562įirst edition of the author’s classic fifth novel. Highsmith died of leukemia in Switzerland, in 1995.HIGHSMITH, Patricia. Some of her most important works include Deep Water (1957), This Sweet Sickness (1960), and The Cry of the Owl (1962).
In 1963, Highsmith relocated to Europe, where she would spend the rest of her life. Ripley (1955), which was awarded both the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière and the Edgar Allan Poe Scroll by the Mystery Writers of America. The first and most famous of these is The Talented Mr.
Highsmith is most known for the Ripley novels, about a young sexually ambiguous man, named Tom Ripley, who has murderous delusions of grandeur. Highsmith’s first novel Strangers on a Train was first published in 1950, and in 1951 Alfred Hitchcock adapted the work for the screen, which helped Highsmith gain literary renown. She graduated from Barnard College in 1942 and shortly thereafter became a writer for the comic book series Black Terror. She was raised by her grandmother in New York City, but was later taken in by her mother and stepfather. Patricia Highsmiths 1957 novel Deep Water was published five years before Edward Albee unleashed George and Martha on the world, terrorizing social. Patricia Highsmith, the nom de plume of Mary Patricia Plangman, was born in Texas, in 1921.
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