Patricia Highsmith: Selected Novels and Short Stories

Product Description 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, transformed into a legendary film by Alfred Hitchcock, displays Highsmith's genius for psychological characterization and tortuous suspense, while The Price of Salt, 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 half a century of literature and film. Abandoned by the wider reading public in her lifetime, Highsmith finally gets the canonical recognition that is her due. Review ''Patricia Highsmith's novels are peerlessly disturbing . . . bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night.'' --The New Yorker''For eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there's no one like Patricia Highsmith.'' --Time About the Author PATRICIA HIGHSMITH (1921-1995) was the author of more than twenty novels, including Strangers on a Train, he Price of Salt, and The Talented Mr. Ripley, as well as numerous short stories.