Eleven - Couverture souple

Highsmith, Patricia

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0802145302 ISBN 13 : 9780802145307

Editeur : Grove Press, 2011

Synopsis

Short stories of suspense by the author of Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley-"a brilliant collection" with a foreword by Graham Greene (The Sunday Times).

Master of tension Patricia Highsmith is best known for her novels of ever-increasing suspense, but she is equally adept at the short story, where "she is after the quick kill rather than the slow encirclement of the reader." Eleven is Highsmith's first collection of short stories--dark masterpieces of obsession and foreboding, violence and instability (Graham Greene, from the foreword).

In these pages, naturalists meet gruesome ends and unhinged heroes disturb our sympathies; simple cases of murder turn out to be something even more sinister, and the cruelties of childhood come to unsettling life. This is a captivating, important collection from "one of the truly brilliant short-story writers of the twentieth century" (Otto Penzler).

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) was the author of more than twenty novels, including Strangers on a Train, The Price of Salt and The Talented Mr. Ripley, as well as numerous short stories.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Grove Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0802145302
• ISBN 13: 9780802145307
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
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