A Game for the Living.

Highsmith (Patricia)

A Game for the Living.

A Novel of Suspense.

Description: FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, pp. [vi], 282, crown 8vo, original mid-brown boards, backstrip lettered in silver with very slight lean to spine, a coiuple of faint marks to the slightly dusty top edge, ownership inscription to front pastedown concealed by dustjacket flap, dustjacket a little nicked, chipped and faintly darkened, good

Publication Details: Heinemann, 1959

Notes: Her sixth novel, set in Mexico - it begins with an epigraph from Kierkegaard.This physiological thriller concerns Ramon, a devoutly Catholic furniture repairman in Mexico City, and his relationship with Theo, a German atheist expat. they both fall under police suspicion and surveillance when a mutual acquaintance is murdered, and each suspects the other of the crime.

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Subject: Modern First Edition

Published Date: 1959

Stock Number: 68587

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