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In A Game for the Living threads of sexual jealousy and guilt are shot through with all Patricia Highsmith's uncanny talent for the unexpected.

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The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer * The Times *
No one has created psychological suspense more densely and deliciously satisfying * Vogue *
I love Highsmith so much . . . What a revelation her writing is -- Gillian Flynn
Highsmith writes about men like a spider writing about flies * Observer *
For eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there's no one like Patricia Highsmith * Time *
There's no thriller writer's gamesmanship in her novels, none of the reassuring trickery of professional pulp; Highsmith's style is as blunt and straightforward as a strip-search * New Yorker *
For some obscure reason, one of our greatest modernist writers, Patricia Highsmith, has been thought of in her own land as a writer of thrillers. She is both. She is certainly one of the most interesting writers of this dismal century -- Gore Vidal
Classic * USA Today *
I love Highsmith so much . . . What a revelation her writing is -- Gillian Flynn

A Game for the Living

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    A Paperback / softback by Patricia Highsmith

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      Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
      Published 21 January 2016
      ISBN-13 9780349004921
      978-0349004921
      ISBN-10 0349004927
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      Crime & Thrillers Books by Patricia Highsmith

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In A Game for the Living threads of sexual jealousy and guilt are shot through with all Patricia Highsmith's uncanny talent for the unexpected.

      Trade Review
      The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer * The Times *
      No one has created psychological suspense more densely and deliciously satisfying * Vogue *
      I love Highsmith so much . . . What a revelation her writing is -- Gillian Flynn
      Highsmith writes about men like a spider writing about flies * Observer *
      For eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there's no one like Patricia Highsmith * Time *
      There's no thriller writer's gamesmanship in her novels, none of the reassuring trickery of professional pulp; Highsmith's style is as blunt and straightforward as a strip-search * New Yorker *
      For some obscure reason, one of our greatest modernist writers, Patricia Highsmith, has been thought of in her own land as a writer of thrillers. She is both. She is certainly one of the most interesting writers of this dismal century -- Gore Vidal
      Classic * USA Today *
      I love Highsmith so much . . . What a revelation her writing is -- Gillian Flynn

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