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Edith's Diary. Hans W. Geissendörfer. Novela: Patricia Highsmith. Drama | Años 70. Familia. Berlin, 1970. Edith y su marido Paul fueron unos importantes activistas en 1968, pero ahora la vida les ha devuelto a la realidad. Deden lidiar con las esperanzas perdidas y con un hijo depresivo que no ve un futuro para sí mismo.
BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY, CAROL AND STRANGERS ON A TRAININTRODUCED BY DENISE MINA'Highsmith probes to the very core of her heroine with a controlled ferocity and single-mindedness that illuminates every page of her novel' THE TIMES 'A work of extraordinary force and feeling . . . her strongest, her most imaginative' NEW YORKER 'One of the mere twenty or so that I ...
25 nov 2019 · The book that Deborah chose is Edith’s Diary by Patricia Highsmith, first published by Heinemann in the UK in 1977 and then Simon & Schuster in the US later that year. It was the seventeenth of her 22 novels. Before that Andy enthuses over Alfred Hitchcock’s Three Investigators series ( The Case of the Stuttering Parrot, in particular) and ...
16 nov 2018 · Edith’s Diary, a psychological crime story, was the first full-length novel not featuring Mr Ripley which I chose to read. The Virago edition, which was republished along with several other Highsmith titles, has an introduction by crime writer Denise Mina, which I found to be measured and quite insightful.
Edith's diary. [Patricia Highsmith] -- To escape the terrible realities of an alcoholic son, a departed husband, a bedridden uncle, and a dreary parttime job, Edith records the activities of a happy family in her journal.
7 mag 2015 · Edith's Diary is certainly one of the saddest novels I ever read, but it is also one of the mere twenty or so that I would say were perfect, unimprovable masterpieces - A. N. Wilson, Telegraph. As original, as funny, as cleverly written and as moving as any novel I have read since I started reviewing - Auberon Waugh, Evening Standard
21 mar 2023 · Two men meet on a train. One, Guy Haines, admits to unhappiness in his marriage and the other, Charles Anthony Bruno, blithely proposes a murder exchange: Guy’s wife for Bruno’s father. Alfred ...
