Patricia Highsmith: Selected Novels and Short Stories (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780393080131)

The remarkable renaissance of Patricia Highsmith continues with the publication of Patricia Highsmith: Selected Novels and Short Stories, featuring two groundbreaking novels as well as a trove of penetrating short stories. With a critical introduction by Joan Schenkar, situating Highsmith's classic works within her own tumultuous life, this book provides a useful guide to some of her most dazzlingly seductive writing. Strangers on a Train (1950), transformed into a legendary film by Alfred Hitchcock, displays Highsmith's genius for psychological characterization and tortuous suspense, while The Price of Salt (1952), with its lesbian lovers and a creepy PI, provides a thrilling and highly controversial depiction of "the love that dare not speak its name." Patricia Highsmith: Selected Novels and Short Stories firmly establishes Highsmith's centrality to American culture by presenting key works that went on to influence a half-century of literature and film. Abandoned by the wider reading public in her lifetime, Highsmith finally gets the canonical recognition that is her due.

Author: Patricia Highsmith
ISBN-10: 0393080137
ISBN-13: 9780393080131
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 12/06/2010
Pages: 644
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.32lbs
Size: 9.38h x 6.64w x 1.76d