description: This volume of stories, many of them published here for the first time, spans almost 50 years of Highsmith's career. Showing the evolution of her writing from her days as a struggling freelancer living in New York in the 1940s to her later years as an expatriate in Switzerland, they reveal her trademark dark characters such as the married man who dates women out of secret revenge against their sex and the suicidal woman who finds that in her despair she is suddenly a sexual magnet. These are suspenseful, playful, taut and psychologically gripping stories, evidence of an extraordinary talent. (From the back cover).
language: English
title: Nothing That Meets the Eye
titlecomplete: Nothing That Meets the Eye
genres: Fiction, American, Short Stories, Mystery, Thriller, Noir, Collections, Literature, Classics, Crime
ratings_count: 650
publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC