Title:
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TALES OF NATURAL AND UNNATURAL CATASTROPHES
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By: |
Patricia Highsmith |
Format: |
Paperback |
List price:
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£8.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
0871133415 |
ISBN 13: |
9780871133410 |
Publisher: |
AVALON TRAVEL PUBLISHING |
Pub. date: |
31 January, 1994 |
Pages: |
189 |
Description: |
In this volume, the author presents a collection of short stories in which a range of contemporary characters are ultimately consumed by their own obsessions. |
Synopsis: |
In this eerily up-to-date collection, Highsmith's incisive prose chronicles a world gone slightly mad, its catastrophes precipitated by human folly and excess. From the White House under siege by the homeless to a 190-year-old woman perpetually near death and dimly glowing, each tale unfolds the illogical extremes of humanity in the late twentieth century. Highsmith transmogrifies the face of daily existence to lay bare its manifold dark motives. These stories leave us haunted with "afterimages that will tremble--but stay--in our minds" (The New Yorker). |
Publication: |
US |
Imprint: |
Avalon Travel Publishing |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |