Nothing that meets the eye
Subtitle: the uncollected stories
By: Patricia Highsmith
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 455
ISBN-13: 9780747579342
Copyright date: 2005
Subjects: American Detective and mystery stories; American Psychological fiction; American Short stories
Description: Short Stories. This volume of stories, many of them published here for the first time, spans almost fifty 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 when she was an expatriate in Switzerland, they reveal her trademark dark themes 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 a sexual magnet. These are suspenseful, playful, taut and psychologically gripping stories, evidence of an extraordinary talent.
Notes: Originally published in Great Britain 2005.
Table of contents: title: pt. I. Early stories, 1938-1949; title: Mightiest mornings --; title: Uncertain treasure --; title: Magic casements --; title: Miss Juste and the green rompers --; title: When the door is always open and the welcome mat is out --; title: In the plaza --; title: Hollow oracle --; title: Great cardhouse --; title: Car --; title: Still point of the turning world --; title: Pianos of the Steinachs --; title: Mighty nice man --; title: Quiet night --; title: Doorbell for Louisa.; title: pt. II. Middle and later stories, 1952-1982; title: Bird in hand --; title: Music to die by --; title: Man's best friend --; title: Born failure --; title: Dangerous hobby --; title: Returnees --; title: Nothing that meets the eye --; title: Two disagreeable pigeons --; title: Variations on a game --; title: Girl like Phyl --; title: It's a deal --; title: Things had gone badly --; title: Trouble with Mrs. Blynn, the trouble with the world --; title: Second cigarette.