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A GAME FOR THE LIVING - PATRICIA HIGHSMITH KART...

BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY  CAROL AND STRANGERS ON A TRAIN'The No.1
Greatest Crime Writer' THE TIMES'I love Highsmith so much . . . What a revelation her writing
is' GILLIAN FLYNN'No one has created psychological suspense more densely and deliciously
satisfying' VOGUE'Ramón had done it. Obviously! He thought about Ramón  his Catholic soul
trapped in his passion for Lelia. He'd find Ramón and see that he paid with his life for what
he had done.'In A Game for the Living  threads of sexual jealousy and guilt are shot through
with all Patricia Highsmith's uncanny talent for the unexpected.Ramón mends furniture. Theodore
paints. A devout Catholic  Ramón lives in Mexico City  not far from where he was born into
poverty. Theodore  a rich German transplanted to a country where money buys some comfort but no
peace  believes in nothing at all.You'd think the two had nothing in common. Except  of course
that both had slept with Lelia. The two were good friends  so neither minded sharing her
affections. They did mind  however  when Lelia was found raped  murdered  and horribly
mutilated. The two friends  suspects both  twist in a limbo of tension and doubt  each seeking
his own form of solace and truth.A thrilling  psychologically complex novel  rich with setting
A Game for the Living is Highsmith at her best.

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