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Biografisk notat
Patricia Highsmith was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1921. Her parents moved to New York when she was six, and she attended the Julia Richmond High School and Barnard College. In her senior year she edited the college magazine, having decided to become a writer at the age of sixteen. Her first novel, Strangers on a Train, was made into a famous film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. The Talented Mr Ripley, published in 1955, was awarded the Edgar Allen Poe Scroll by the Mystery Writers of America. Patricia Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland in 1995. Her last novel Small g: A Summer Idyll was published posthumously just over a month later.Patricia Highsmith has an extraordinary talent for the sinister, and this is well revealed in <i>The Cry of the Owl</i>, one of her finest novels
- Robert Nye, Guardian
Patricia Highsmith is a craftsman who has made the suspense novel her own domain
The Times
The basic nightmare situation - to be accused of a crime you did not commit and be unable to prove your innocence- is the subject of <i>The Cry of the Owl</i>... It's Kafka with a vengeance... compulsive
Spectator
A rare talent, a remarkable novelist... her books are written in elegant and lucid prose
- John Mortimer,
Every watcher becomes the watched
When Robert becomes fixated on a woman he glimpses through her window, he imagines he’s found peace - until she notices him, and their lives entwine in a spiral of suspicion and death.
Highsmith’s The Cry of the Owl is a study in paranoia and fate, told with chilling precision. Desire, guilt and moral decay blur into one another until innocence itself feels like a crime.
‘Extraordinary … one of her finest novels’ Guardian
‘A superb portrait of obsession and its fallout’ Sunday Times
"If everybody in the world didn't keep watching to see what everybody else did, we'd all go berserk."
Jenny believes that sighting an owl is a portent of death.