Short stories filled with ';satire, mischief, and menace' by the author of The Talented Mr. Ripley (Harper's Bazaar). These ten stories chronicle a world gone slightly mad, with dark, inventive takes on environmental degradation, apocalyptic disaster, political chaos, religious conservatism, and more. From a winner of both an O. Henry Award and a Silver Dagger Award, among other honors, and the author of Strangers on a Train, the basis for the classic Hitchcock film, this collection of short fiction is filled with ';afterimages that will tremblebut stayin our minds' (The New Yorker). ';Whereas we read Stephen King or Ruth Rendell to relish the thrills that come from carefully controlled verbal terror, Highsmith is not to be taken so lightly. She conveys a firm, unshakable belief in the existence of evilpersonal, psychological, and political.... The genius of Talesand all of Highsmith's writingis that it is at once deeply disturbing and exhilarating.' The Boston Phoenix ';Combining the best features of the suspense genre with the best of existential fiction... The stories are fabulous, in all senses of that word.' Paul Theroux
| ISBN: | 9780802194978 |
| Publication date: | 8th November 2011 |
| Author: | Highsmith, Patricia |
| Publisher: | Grove Atlantic |
| Format: | Ebook (Epub) |