People who knock on the door / Patricia Highsmith ; introduced by Sarah Hilary.

Nā:

Highsmith, Patricia, 1921-1995 [author.]

Kaituhi:

Hilary, Sarah [author,, author of introduction, etc.]

Momo rauemi: Text

TextSeries: Virago modern classicsEdition: Paperback editionWhakaahuatanga: xiii, 364 pages ; 15 x 20 cmISBN:

9780349004976
0349004978

Ngā marau:

Evangelicalism -- Middle West -- Fiction

Genre/Form:

Psychological fiction.

Summary: CLASSIC FICTION (PRE C 1945). In a pitiless story of prying suburban self-righteousness, Patricia Highsmith introduces the Alderman family as they descend into moral crisis. When small-town insurance salesman Richard Alderman becomes a born-again Christian, his once tight-knit family quickly begins to rip apart at the seams. He and his youngest son, Robbie, embrace their newfound faith, while his elder son Arthur rejects it. Caught in the middle of the ensuing web of lies, his wife, Lois, tries to keep the family together, but when the church elders start to interfere in Arthur's love life, events spiral toward violence. In this masterful late work, Highsmith weaves a powerful tale about blind faith and the peculiar ideas of justice that lie underneath the veneer of respectability.

Ngā tūtohu mai i tēnei whare pukapuka: Kāore he tūtohu i tēnei whare pukapuka mō tēnei taitara. Takiuru ki te tāpiri tūtohu.

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Momo tuemi	Tauwāhi onāianei	Kohinga	Tau karanga	Tūnga	Rā oti	Waeherepae	Ngā puringa tuemi
Suspense	Eltham LibraryPlus Fiction	Fiction	HIGH (Tirotirohia te whatanga(Opens below))	Wātea		i2156820

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Originally published: London: Heinemann, 1983.

CLASSIC FICTION (PRE C 1945). In a pitiless story of prying suburban self-righteousness, Patricia Highsmith introduces the Alderman family as they descend into moral crisis. When small-town insurance salesman Richard Alderman becomes a born-again Christian, his once tight-knit family quickly begins to rip apart at the seams. He and his youngest son, Robbie, embrace their newfound faith, while his elder son Arthur rejects it. Caught in the middle of the ensuing web of lies, his wife, Lois, tries to keep the family together, but when the church elders start to interfere in Arthur's love life, events spiral toward violence. In this masterful late work, Highsmith weaves a powerful tale about blind faith and the peculiar ideas of justice that lie underneath the veneer of respectability.

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