Connoisseur of art, harpsichord aficionado, gardener extraordinaire, and genius of improvisational murder, the inimitable Tom Ripley finds his complacency shaken when he is scorned at a posh gala. While an ordinary psychopath might repay the insult with some mild act of retribution, what Ripley has in mind is far more …
Small g: a Summer Idyll is the final novel by American writer Patricia Highsmith before her death in 1995; it was published posthumously.
"Highsmith's writing is wicked . . . it puts a spell on you, after which you feel altered, even tainted." —Entertainment WeeklyWith Norton's publication of The Black House, Patricia Highsmith's entire body of work is now back in print. First published in 1981, this volume is one of Highsmith's most nuanced and …