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Patricia Highsmith, Paul Ingendaay (Hg.) | A Suspension of Mercy | English Title: A Suspension of Mercy<br>Novel, 384 Pages

Novel, Hardcover
384 Pages
Published in Oct. 2006

ISBN 978-3-257-06411-7
€ (D) 21.90 / (A) 22.60
sFr 38.90*
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Patricia Highsmith
A Suspension of Mercy

Published by Diogenes as Der Geschichtenerzähler

Being a writer – a harmless profession? After this book, everyone will agree: reading is safer! Sydney Bartleby has murdered his wife Alicia a dozen times over. Of course he has – after all, he is a scriptwriter and author of crime thrillers, a profession in which he has achieved as little success as he has in his marriage. When Alicia unexpectedly goes on a journey, her husband exploits her absence to perfect his artistic methods. But when Alicia fails to return, Sydney’s behaviour – in strict accordance with the script – becomes highly suspicious. Patricia Highsmith recounts Sydney’s (un)-stoppable descent into the deceitful world of his dreams and fantasies. Initially, he believes that he can simply go on dreaming and inventing, but soon he finds himself writing not for his novel, but for his life.

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»Patricia Highsmith has achieved, apparently unintentionally, that of which only truly great literature is capable: she has instilled her work with a glimpse of reality that today appears almost more modern, precise and relevant than at the time it was originally written.«Der Standard

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