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Mermaids on the Golf Course (Virago Modern Classics) ebok
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BY THE BESTSELLING AND AWARD-WINNING AMERICAN CRIME NOVELIST OF ALL TIME The bestselling author of The Talented Mr Ripley, Carol and Strangers on a Train'For eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there's no one like Patricia Highsmith' TIME 'They compel attention and they add significantly to her already formidable presence' WASHINGTON POST'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' THE TIMES The stories collected in Mermaids on the Golf Course are among Patricia Highsmith's most matur…
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Undertittel
A Virago Modern Classic
Forlag
Virago
Utgitt
10 desember 2016
Sjanger
Krim, Skjønnlitteratur, Noveller
Serie
Virago Modern Classics
Språk
English
Format
epub
DRM-beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780349004754
BY THE BESTSELLING AND AWARD-WINNING AMERICAN CRIME NOVELIST OF ALL TIME
The bestselling author of The Talented Mr Ripley, Carol and Strangers on a Train
'For eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there's no one like Patricia Highsmith' TIME
'They compel attention and they add significantly to her already formidable presence' WASHINGTON POST
'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' THE TIMES
The stories collected in Mermaids on the Golf Course are among Patricia Highsmith's most mature, psychologically penetrating works. Published in the latter part of her career, these stories reveal Highsmith's mastery of the short story form. Moving between locales as various as France, Mexico, Zurich and New York, Highsmith transforms the mundane features of everyday life into an eerie backdrop for her penetrating stories of violence, secrecy, and madness.
In The Stuff of Madness, Christopher Waggoner, increasingly dismayed by his wife's habit of preserving dead pets in their garden, enacts a devious revenge by adding a bizarre new exhibit to their collection; in the title story, an eminent economist's brush with death endows his once-familiar desires with tragic consequences; and in A Shot from Nowhere, a young painter who witnesses a gruesome death on a vacant Mexican Street becomes trapped in an unimaginable nightmare.
In these piercing stories, Highsmith creates a world all the more frightening because we recognise it as our own . . .
The bestselling author of The Talented Mr Ripley, Carol and Strangers on a Train
'For eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there's no one like Patricia Highsmith' TIME
'They compel attention and they add significantly to her already formidable presence' WASHINGTON POST
'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' THE TIMES
The stories collected in Mermaids on the Golf Course are among Patricia Highsmith's most mature, psychologically penetrating works. Published in the latter part of her career, these stories reveal Highsmith's mastery of the short story form. Moving between locales as various as France, Mexico, Zurich and New York, Highsmith transforms the mundane features of everyday life into an eerie backdrop for her penetrating stories of violence, secrecy, and madness.
In The Stuff of Madness, Christopher Waggoner, increasingly dismayed by his wife's habit of preserving dead pets in their garden, enacts a devious revenge by adding a bizarre new exhibit to their collection; in the title story, an eminent economist's brush with death endows his once-familiar desires with tragic consequences; and in A Shot from Nowhere, a young painter who witnesses a gruesome death on a vacant Mexican Street becomes trapped in an unimaginable nightmare.
In these piercing stories, Highsmith creates a world all the more frightening because we recognise it as our own . . .
