A Game for the Living
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| Author | Patricia Highsmith |
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| Language | English |
| Published | Harper & Brothers (1958) |
A Game for the Living (1958) is a psychological thriller novel by Patricia Highsmith.[1]
Synopsis
Ramon, a devoutly Catholic furniture repairman from Mexico City, meets Theodore, a wealthy German atheist. An unlikely friendship develops, until Lelia, a woman they had both slept with and cared for, is found brutally raped, murdered and mutilated, leaving each man in suspicion of the other.
Reception
Her [most recent] novel goes far beyond the bounds of the "mystery", a genre label that has stuck to Highsmith since her first, Strangers on a Train, in 1950. It is time she reached a wider audience.
Highsmith in fine form, and if there are terrors in store for readers of Games for the Living, there are also the rich pleasures of getting to know two men whose affection for each other runs deep enough to survive the possibility that one is a killer.
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