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Les deux visages de janvier
Fuyant les Etats-Unis où il risque la prison, Chester Mac Farland s’est enfui en Grèce avec sa femme. Tous deux tâchent d’avoir l’air de paisibles touristes... Jusqu’au jour où, par affolement, il tue sans le vouloir un policier trop curieux.Pourquoi Rydal Keener, un jeune Américain désœuvré et désargenté, qui depuis un certain temps observe ce couple furtif, lui propose-t-il alors son aide ? Chester s’attend à un chantage, mais Rydal paraît s’intéresser aussi à la ravissante Mrs Mac Farland...C’est ainsi que les trois personnages vont se retrouver prisonniers les uns des autres, dans une de ces intrigues à l’impeccable rigueur où excelle la romancière de M. Ripley, de La Rançon du chien et de nombreux autres classiques de la psychologie criminelle.
FictionMystery & Detective
RELEASED2005
PUBLISHERLibrairie Générale Française
LENGTH313
LANGUAGEFR
Patricia Highsmith (January 19, 1921 – February 4, 1995) was an American novelist and short story writer widely known for her psychological thrillers, including her series of five novels featuring the character Tom Ripley. She wrote 22 novels and numerous short stories throughout her career spanning nearly five decades, and her work has led to more than two dozen film adaptations. Her writing derived influence from existentialist literature, and questioned notions of identity and popular morality. She was dubbed "the poet of apprehension" by novelist Graham Greene. Her first novel, *Strangers on a Train*, has been adapted for stage and screen, the best known being the Alfred Hitchcock film released in 1951. Her 1955 novel *The Talented Mr. Ripley* has been adapted for film. Writing under the pseudonym **Claire Morgan**, Highsmith published the first lesbian novel with a happy ending, *The Price of Salt*, in 1952, republished 38 years later as Carol under her own name and later adapted into a 2015 film. **Source**: [Patricia Highsmith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Highsmith) on Wikipedia
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Les deux visages de janvier
Fuyant les Etats-Unis où il risque la prison, Chester Mac Farland s’est enfui en Grèce avec sa femme. Tous deux tâchent d’avoir l’air de paisibles touristes... Jusqu’au jour où, par affolement, il tue sans le vouloir un policier trop curieux.Pourquoi Rydal Keener, un jeune Américain désœuvré et désargenté, qui depuis un certain temps observe ce couple furtif, lui propose-t-il alors son aide ? Chester s’attend à un chantage, mais Rydal paraît s’intéresser aussi à la ravissante Mrs Mac Farland...C’est ainsi que les trois personnages vont se retrouver prisonniers les uns des autres, dans une de ces intrigues à l’impeccable rigueur où excelle la romancière de M. Ripley, de La Rançon du chien et de nombreux autres classiques de la psychologie criminelle.
FictionMystery & Detective
RELEASED2005
PUBLISHERLibrairie Générale Française
LENGTH313
LANGUAGEFR
Patricia Highsmith (January 19, 1921 – February 4, 1995) was an American novelist and short story writer widely known for her psychological thrillers, including her series of five novels featuring the character Tom Ripley. She wrote 22 novels and numerous short stories throughout her career spanning nearly five decades, and her work has led to more than two dozen film adaptations. Her writing derived influence from existentialist literature, and questioned notions of identity and popular morality. She was dubbed "the poet of apprehension" by novelist Graham Greene. Her first novel, *Strangers on a Train*, has been adapted for stage and screen, the best known being the Alfred Hitchcock film released in 1951. Her 1955 novel *The Talented Mr. Ripley* has been adapted for film. Writing under the pseudonym **Claire Morgan**, Highsmith published the first lesbian novel with a happy ending, *The Price of Salt*, in 1952, republished 38 years later as Carol under her own name and later adapted into a 2015 film. **Source**: [Patricia Highsmith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Highsmith) on Wikipedia
