Nothing That Meets the Eye: The Uncollected Stories of Patricia Highsmith - Rilegato

Highsmith, Patricia

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ISBN 10: 0393051870 ISBN 13: 9780393051872

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2002

Riassunto

Twenty-eight short stories by the late author of The Talented Mr. Ripley reflect the American psyche of the mid-twentieth century and feature such characters as a gigolo-like psychopath, a lonely spinster, and an estranged postal worker. 30,000 first printing.

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Patricia Highsmith is the author of such classics as Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley. She died in 1995 in Locarno, Switzerland.

Product Description:

If only Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) had been alive to see the thunderous critical response to the publication of the best-selling The Selected Stories of Patricia Higbsmith in 2001. Now the Highsmith renaissance continues with this brilliant collection of 28 short stories, a great majority of which have never been seen before. The stories assembled in Nothing That Meets the Eye, written between 1938 and 1982, are vintage Highsmith: a gigolo-like psychopath preys on unfulfilled career women; a lonely spinster's fragile hold on reality is tethered to the bottle; an estranged postal worker invents homicidal fantasies about his coworkers. While some stories anticipate the diabolical narratives of the Ripley novels, others possess a Capra-like sweetness that forces us to see the author in a new light. From this new collection, a remarkable portrait of the American psyche at mid-century emerges, unforgettably distilled by the inimitable eye of Patricia Highsmith.

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• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0393051870
• ISBN 13: 9780393051872
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 480