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Patricia Highsmith
ISBN: 9780747575009
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Edition: UK open market ed
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A collection in which unsuspecting victims are devoured by their own obsessions: a man becomes devoted to his pet snails; a young nanny turns arsonist in a bid to become heroine of the hour; and, a boy finally stands up to his mother, with knife in hand. It probes the dark corners of the human psyche.
Unsuspecting victims are devoured by their own obsessions in this perfectly chilling collection. A man becomes devoted to his pet snails, with fatal results. A young nanny turns arsonist in a bid to become heroine of the hour. A boy finally stands up to his mother, with knife in hand. Highsmith weaves a world claustrophobic in its intensity, disturbing in its mundanity, as she probes the dark corners of the human psyche. "Eleven" is a collection of masterpieces of Highsmith's particular art, full of compulsion, foreboding and cruel pleasures.
| ISBN | 0747575002 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | ISBN13 | 9780747575009
(What's this?) | | Pages | 192 | | Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC | | Height (mm) | 178 | | Format | Paperback | | Width (mm) | 111 | | Publication date | 21 May 2007 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY | 813.54 | |
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'Fabulous, in all senses of that word' Paul Theroux 'Miss Highsmith is a novelist whose books one can re-read many times. There are very few of whom one can say that' Graham Greene 'What is striking about these stories is their integrity: they are all of a piece ... a brilliant collection' Sunday Times 'The mood of nagging apprehension is consistent, skilfully underplayed so that just the right amount of chill is induced with an economy of means' New York Times  Be the first to write a customer review
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