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SELECTED NOVELS AND SHORT STORIES
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| By: |
Patricia Highsmith, Joan Schenkar |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£31.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0393080137 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780393080131 |
| Publisher: |
WW NORTON & CO |
| Pub. date: |
11 November, 2011 |
| Pages: |
644 |
| Description: |
The remarkable renaissance of Patricia Highsmith ("Strangers on a Train, The Talented Mr. Ripley") continues with the publication of "The Highsmith Reader," featuring two groundbreaking novels as well as a trove of penetrating short stories. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
WW Norton & Co |
| Returns: |
Returnable |