by Patricia Highsmith · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433920553
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«Mar de fondo» is the psychological suspense novel by Patricia Highsmith, published by Editorial Anagrama in paperback (272 pages, in Spanish).
Vic Van Allen, charming and tolerant, puts up with his wife Melinda's infidelities. A joke about a perfect crime told to a lover strains the situation: a new friend of Melinda's turns up dead and she accuses Vic, though no one seems to believe her. Highsmith builds the portrait of a possible psychopath behind the facade of the model husband.
The novel was originally published as «Deep Water» in 1957. It is number 51 in the Compactos collection.
For fans of crime fiction and psychological thrillers; Julian Symons recommended it even to those who don't read detective stories.
Patricia Highsmith was an American novelist and short story writer widely known for her psychological thrillers, including her series of five novels featuring the character Tom Ripley. She wrote 22 novels and numerous short stories in a career spanning nearly five decades, and her work has led to more than two dozen film adaptations. Her writing was influenced by existentialist literature and questioned notions of identity and popular morality. She was dubbed "the poet of apprehension" by novelist Graham Greene.
