Deep Water : Virago Modern Classics : Virago Modern Classics - Patricia Highsmith

Deep Water : Virago Modern Classics

By: Patricia Highsmith

Paperback | 8 May 2018 | Edition Number 1

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To everyone around them, Melinda and Vic Van Allen are the perfect couple - young, wealthy and attractive. But when their love sours, their mind games reach a twisted, dangerous climax. Published as part of a beautifully designed series to mark the 40th anniversary of the Virago Modern Classics.

'If I really don't like somebody, I kill him . . . You remember Malcolm McRae, don't you?'

Melinda Van Allen is beautiful, headstrong and sexy. Unfortunately for Vic Van Allen, she is his wife. Their love has soured, and Melinda takes pleasure in flaunting her many affairs to her husband. When one of her lovers is murdered, Vic hints to her latest conquest that he was responsible.

As rumours spread about Vic's vicious streak, fiction and reality start to converge. It's only a matter of time before Vic really does have blood on his hands.

Books included in the VMC 40th anniversary series include:
  • Frost in May by Antonia White
  • The Collected Stories of Grace Paley
  • Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault
  • The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter
  • The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann
  • Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith
  • The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
  • Heartburn by Nora Ephron
  • The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
  • Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
  • A View of the Harbour by Elizabeth Taylor
Industry Reviews
The outstanding merit of Deep Water is the dexterity with which it develops the psychopath's portrait from the first faint agreeable outline to the full dark horrific colours of schizophrenia. If you read crime stories at all or perhaps especially if you don't, you should read Deep Water. - Sunday Times

An atmosphere of nameless dread, of unspeakable foreboding, permeates every page of Patricia Highsmith, and there's nothing quite like it. - Boston Globe

My suspicion is that when the dust has settled and when the chronicle of 20th-century American literature comes to be written, history will place Highsmith at the top of the pyramid, as we should place Dostoevsky at the top of the Russian hierarchy of novelists - Daily Telegraph

I love [Highsmith] so much . . . what a revelation her writing was - Gillian Flynn

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