Nothing That Meets the Eye
Book (italiano):
The Patricia Highsmith renaissance continues with <em>Nothing That Meets the Eye</em>, a brilliant collection of twenty-eight psychologically penetrating stories, a great majority of which are published for the first time in this collection. This volume spans almost fifty years of Highsmith's career and establishes her as a permanent member of our American literary canon, as attested by recent publication of two of these stories in <em>The New Yorker</em> and <em>Harper's</em>. The stories assembled in <em>Nothing That Meets the Eye</em>, written between 1938 and 1982, are vintage Highsmith: a gigolo-like psychopath preys on unfulfilled career women; a lonely spinster's fragile hold on reality is tethered to the bottle; an estranged postal worker invents homicidal fantasies about his coworkers. While some stories anticipate the diabolical narratives of the Ripley novels, others possess a Capra-like sweetness that forces us to see the author in a new light. From this new collection, a remarkable portrait of the American psyche at mid-century emerges, unforgettably distilled by the inimitable eye of Patricia Highsmith.<br /> <br />A <em>New York Times</em> Notable Book and a <em>Washington Post</em> Rave of 2002. "Almost every piece...contains touches that reveal what a subtle writer Highsmith was."-James Campbell, <em>New York Times</em> "A thrilling compendium of work full of surprises."-Ed Siegel, <em>Boston Globe</em> "One of the exhilarating effects of reading Highsmith's stories...is the greatly enlarged sense of her range and energy...in their surehandedness, their amazing breadth and abundance...[these stories] compel attention and they add significantly to her already formidable presence."-James Lasdun, <em>Washington Post</em>
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