The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith

Patricia Highsmith

earliest edition we have, 2001 Little, Brown Book Group Limited, 2021

In a cruel twist of irony, Texas-born Patricia Highsmith is only now, six years after her death, being recognized for her inestimable genius in her native land. With the savage humor of Evelyn Waugh and the macabre sensibility of Edgar Allan Poe, she brought a distinct twentieth-century acuity to her prolific body of noir fiction. Called "the poet of apprehension" by Graham Greene, Highsmith was unrivaled in capturin...

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Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith edition · 2021 · Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 9780349014784
The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith edition · 2005 · W. W. Norton · 736 pages · 9780393327724
The selected stories of Patricia Highsmith edition · 2001 · W.W. Norton · 724 pages

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