Switzerland
by Joanna Murray-smith

Name: Switzerland
Brand: Joanna Murray-smith
SKU: 9780822234357
Rating: 3.87 (45 reviews)

Switzerland Book Cover — Switzerland Cover

Highlights

Small Cast

Female

Male

Unit Set/Multiple Settings American Mystery

Synopsis

THE STORY: Somewhere in the Swiss Alps, grande dame of crime literature Patricia Highsmith lives with an impressive collection of books, and a somewhat sinister collection of guns and knives.

She finds solace in her solitude, her cats, and cigarettes.

But when a mysterious international visitor arrives at her perfectly secluded home, her love of fictional murders becomes a dangerous reality.

Press Reviews

"Writers of crime fiction are rarely as brutal or twisted as the characters they create. But meet Patricia Highsmith, by general agreement a foul-mouthed misanthrope who spent decades detailing the psychotic narcissism lurking in humanity’s dark heart…SWITZERLAND will likely send spectators giddily speeding back to such novels as Strangers on a Train and…The Talented Mr. Ripley."
— Variety

"SWITZERLAND [is] an act of homage by way of larceny, appropriating Highsmith the real person as a fictional character in one of her own queasy dramas. The play hinges on an irresistible conceit…Murray-Smith has great fun emulating Highsmith’s terse, caustic register…SWITZERLAND is obviously an act of identification: one writer wrestling with a creation wrestling with her most famous creation of all."
— The Hollywood Reporter