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Patricia Highsmith
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Patricia Highsmith: Selected Novels and Short Stories |
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No copies available |
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English |
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Hardcover |
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644 |
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2010-12-06 |
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0393080137 |
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W. W. Norton & Company |
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2.35 pounds |
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6.5 x 1.73 x 9.49 inches |
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First Edition |
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2 John S. Hall (USA: RI), Michael F Braddock (USA: CA) |
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2 Ray Palen (USA), gabe2000 (USA) |
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Product Description
"Patricia Highsmith's novels are peerlessly disturbing . . . bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night."—The New Yorker The remarkable renaissance of Patricia Highsmith continues with the publication of Patricia Highsmith: Selected Novels and Short Stories, featuring two groundbreaking novels as well as a trove of penetrating short stories. With a critical introduction by Joan Schenkar, situating Highsmith's classic works within her own tumultuous life, this book provides a useful guide to some of her most dazzlingly seductive writing. Strangers on a Train (1950), transformed into a legendary film by Alfred Hitchcock, displays Highsmith's genius for psychological characterization and tortuous suspense, while The Price of Salt (1952), with its lesbian lovers and a creepy PI, provides a thrilling and highly controversial depiction of "the love that dare not speak its name." Patricia Highsmith: Selected Novels and Short Stories firmly establishes Highsmith's centrality to American culture by presenting key works that went on to influence a half-century of literature and film. Abandoned by the wider reading public in her lifetime, Highsmith finally gets the canonical recognition that is her due.
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