Under a Dark Angel's Eye: The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith

Patricia Highsmith is one of the great twentieth-century novelists, celebrated for classics like The Talented Mr Ripley, Carol, and Strangers on a Train. This definitive new collection confirms her as a genius of the genre, with two stories that have never been published before. It is peerlessly disturbing, exhilarating, and savagely funny, and still has the power to startle.

\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 640 pages
\n Publication date: 14 January 2021
\n Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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By the bestselling author of The Talented Mr Ripley , Carol and Strangers on a Train * By opening this book,you ve given Patricia Highsmith permission to follow you,catch you,take you apart. Get ready to run CARMEN MARIA MACHADO * Every story shimmers like a dark gem as Highsmith turns her gimlet eye on domesticity,suburban madness,toxic families and the loneliness of childhood. Often mordantly funny and always psychologically acute,this collection is not to be missed MEGAN ABBOTT * The sheer macabre,amoral brilliance of Patricia Highsmith surely makes her one of the finest writers in the English language RICHARD OSMAN INTRODUCED BY CARMEN MARIA MACHADO Patricia Highsmith was one of the great twentieth-century novelists,celebrated for classics The Talented Mr Ripley,Carol and Strangers on a Train ,but she was also a masterful and prolific short-story writer. This definitive new collection,featuring two stories that have never been published before,confirms Highsmith as a genius of the genre. Peerlessly disturbing,exhilarating and savagely funny,Highsmith s stories still have the power to startle,presenting a world that is frighteningly familiar and as relevant today as when they were written. * Includes two newly discovered stories * This is the only volume of Highsmith s stories to select from a lifetime of short-story writing By the bestselling author of The Talented Mr Ripley , Carol and Strangers on a Train * By opening this book,you ve given Patricia Highsmith permission to follow you,catch you,take you apart. Get ready to run CARMEN MARIA MACHADO * Every story shimmers like a dark gem as Highsmith turns her gimlet eye on domesticity,suburban madness,toxic families and the loneliness of childhood. Often mordantly funny and always psychologically acute,this collection is not to be missed MEGAN ABBOTT * The sheer macabre,amoral brilliance of Patricia Highsmith surely makes her one of the finest writers in the English language RICHARD OSMAN INTRODUCED BY CARMEN MARIA MACHADO Patricia Highsmith was one of the great twentieth-century novelists,celebrated for classics The Talented Mr Ripley,Carol and Strangers on a Train ,but she was also a masterful and prolific short-story writer. This definitive new collection,featuring two stories that have never been published before,confirms Highsmith as a genius of the genre. Peerlessly disturbing,exhilarating and savagely funny,Highsmith s stories still have the power to startle,presenting a world that is frighteningly familiar and as relevant today as when they were written. * Includes two newly discovered stories * This is the only volume of Highsmith s stories to select from a lifetime of short-story writing

By the bestselling author of The Talented Mr. Ripley, Carol, and Strangers on a Train, Patricia Highsmith was one of the great twentieth-century novelists, celebrated for classics such as The Talented Mr. Ripley, Carol, and Strangers on a Train, but she was also a masterful and prolific short-story writer. This definitive new collection, featuring two stories that have never been published before, confirms Highsmith as a genius of the genre. Peerlessly disturbing, exhilarating, and savagely funny, Highsmith's stories still have the power to startle, presenting a world that is frighteningly familiar and as relevant today as when they were written.

Includes two newly discovered stories

This is the only volume of Highsmith's stories to select from a lifetime of short-story writing

By the bestselling author of The Talented Mr. Ripley, Carol, and Strangers on a Train, Patricia Highsmith was one of the great twentieth-century novelists, celebrated for classics such as The Talented Mr. Ripley, Carol, and Strangers on a Train, but she was also a masterful and prolific short-story writer. This definitive new collection, featuring two stories that have never been published before, confirms Highsmith as a genius of the genre. Peerlessly disturbing, exhilarating, and savagely funny, Highsmith's stories still have the power to startle, presenting a world that is frighteningly familiar and as relevant today as when they were written.

Includes two newly discovered stories

This is the only volume of Highsmith's stories to select from a lifetime of short-story writing

\n Weight: 966g\n
Dimension: 166 x 241 x 54 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780349014760\n \n