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Ira Levin

    27 agosto 1929 – 12 novembre 2007

    Ira Levin fu un maestro della suspense e dell'orrore, le cui opere erano rinomate per la loro meticolosa costruzione e atmosfera inquietante. Spesso paragonato a un 'orologiaio svizzero', Levin intrecciava abilmente elementi di suspense, terrore psicologico e commento sociale in narrazioni che risuonavano con le ansie contemporanee. La sua capacità di attingere agli aspetti più oscuri della natura umana e della società gli valse il plauso della critica e un pubblico devoto. Le storie di Levin esplorano frequentemente i confini della moralità e la natura insidiosa del male in contesti apparentemente ordinari.

    Ira Levin
    Veronica's room : a thriller in two acts
    The Boys from Brazil (Level 4 Reader)
    Veronica's Room
    I ragazzi venuti dal Brasile
    Rosemary's Baby
    Un bacio prima di morire
    • Un bacio prima di morire

      • 350pagine
      • 13 ore di lettura

      Una ricca studentessa precipita dal tetto di un grattacielo. Tutto lascia credere che si tratti di un suicidio ma la sorella della vittima non crede a questa tesi e insieme al fidanzato cerca di ricostruire la verità sull'accaduto. Quello che ignora però è che al centro della vicenda si nasconde una perfida mente criminale, un assassino cinico e insospettabile capace di fare sfoggio di un fascino irresistibile.

      Un bacio prima di morire
      4,1
    • Veronica's Room

      • 56pagine
      • 2 ore di lettura

      This chilling mystery thriller by the author of Rosemary's Baby explores the thin line between fantasy and reality, madness and murder. Students Susan and Larry find themselves as guests enticed to the Brabissant mansion by it's dissolute caretakers the lonely Mackeys. Struck by Susan's strong resemblance to Veronica Brabissant, long- dead daughter of the family for whom they work, the older couple gradually induce her to impersonate Veronica briefly to solace the only living Brabissant, her addled sister who believes Veronica alive. Once dressed in Veronica's clothes, Susan finds herself locked in the role and locked in Veronica's room. Or is she Veronica, in 1935, pretending to be an imaginary Susan?

      Veronica's Room
      4,0
    • It is 1974, but for Dr Mengele and his group of Nazis, World War II is not yet over. They have a terrible plan to conquer the world, but how does it involve a group of boys that come from different countries, yet all look exactly the same? Only one man can find out.

      The Boys from Brazil (Level 4 Reader)
      4,0
    • Thriller New Revised Edition 2 male, 2 female Interior Set This chilling mystery thriller by the author of Rosemary's Baby explores the thin line between fantasy and reality, madness and murder. Students Susan and Larry find themselves as guests enticed to the Brabissant mansion by it's dissolute caretakers the lonely Mackeys. Struck by Susan's strong resemblance to Veronica Brabissant, long- dead daughter of the family for whom they work, the o

      Veronica's room : a thriller in two acts
      4,0
    • BlackBirds: The Boys from Brazil

      • 255pagine
      • 9 ore di lettura

      Alive and hiding in South America, the fiendish Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele gathers a group of former colleagues for a horrifying project—the creation of the Fourth Reich. Barry Kohler, a young investigative journalist, gets wind of the project and informs famed Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman, but before he can relay the evidence, Kohler is killed. Thus Ira Levin opens one of the strangest and most masterful novels of his career. Why has Mengele marked a number of harmless aging men for murder? What is the hidden link that binds them? What interest can they possibly hold for their killers: six former SS men dispatched from South America by the most wanted Nazi still alive, the notorious "Angel of Death"? One man alone must answer these questions and stop the killings—Lieberman, himself aging and thought by some to be losing his grip on reality. At the heart of The Boys from Brazil lies a frightening contemporary nightmare, chilling and all too possible.

      BlackBirds: The Boys from Brazil
      3,7
    • The Boys from Brazil

      • 268pagine
      • 10 ore di lettura

      The classic thriller of Dr. Josef Mengele's nightmarish plot to restore the Third Reich.

      The Boys from Brazil
      4,0
    • A hugely popular stage and screen success, this ingeniously constructed play offers a rare and skilful blending of two priceless theatrical ingredients - gasp-inducing thrills and spontaneous laughter. Unknown dramatist Clifford Anderson has sent his new thriller to award-winning Broadway author Sidney for comment - or has he...-2 women, 3 men

      Death Trap
      3,7