![]() ![]() Here we’re in Switzerland, there we’re in Tunisia and Italy and … A Game for The Living (1958) Patricia Highsmith I so love how much she changes the set and settings of her novels. It opens in Zurich in a bar with a brutal murder. The faithful husband wishes his wife dead. Mexico, Tunisia, Italy… The Blunderer (1954) Patricia Highsmith I love the way she completely changes the settings of her stories. From Rome to Venice where Ray is both the hunter and the hunted. A grieving husband is assaulted by his father in law. Those Who Walk Away (1967) Patricia Highsmith I love it, since I lived in Tunisia a short while. Set in Tunisia, an American writer, is drawn into something murderous. “Highsmith’s finest novel” says Graham Greene. The Tremor of Forgery (1969) Patricia Highsmith Strangers on A Train (1950) Patricia Highsmith These are fascinating areas and quite new in novel writing. She knows perfectly well how women can manipulate men. ![]() I think what she gets is the ability of people to appear one way and yet underneath be totally monsters. I have to confess I haven’t written my reading blog for ages, though I have been reading. ![]()
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