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Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith » (Reprint)

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Authors: Patricia Highsmith, Graham Greene
ISBN-13: 9780393327724, ISBN-10: 0393327728
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Date Published: December 2005
Edition: Reprint

Author Biography: Patricia Highsmith

Though she penned such great psychological crime novels as Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith's gifts went largely unrecognized by American readers until recently. Fortunately, Highsmith's bizarre, subtly shaded novels were too good to remain obscure.

Book Synopsis

The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith presents five of Highsmith's classic short story collections in a single masterful volume. Compelling, twisted, and fiercely intelligent, this landmark collection showcases Highsmith's mastery of the short story form.

New York Times - Janet Maslin

A fascinating artifact, and a difficult book to put down.

	Foreword
	Chorus Girl's Absolutely Final Performance	3
	Djemal's Revenge	12
	There I Was, Stuck with Bubsy	25
	Ming's Biggest Prey	37
	In the Dead of Truffle Season	46
	The Bravest Rat in Venice	57
	Engine Horse	71
	The Day of Reckoning	84
	Notes from a Respectable Cockroach	98
	Eddie and the Monkey Robberies	103
	Hamsters vs. Websters	117
	Harry: A Ferret	134
	Goat Ride	147
	The Hand	161
	Oona, the Jolly Cave Woman	163
	The Coquette	165
	The Female Novelist	167
	The Dancer	169
	The Invalid, or, the Bedridden	171
	The Artist	173
	The Middle-Class Housewife	176
	The Fully Licensed Whore, or, the Wife	179
	The Breeder	183
	The Mobile Bed-Object	189
	The Perfect Little Lady	194
	The Silent Mother-in-Law	198
	The Prude	202
	The Victim	207
	The Evangelist	213
	The Perfectionist	217
	The Man Who Wrote Books in His Head	223
	The Network	229
	The Pond	243
	Something You Have to Live With	259
	Slowly, Slowly in the Wind	273
	Those Awful Dawns	288
	Woodrow Wilson's Necktie	302
	One for the Islands	316
	A Curious Suicide	322
	The Baby Spoon	332
	Broken Glass	341
	Please Don't Shoot the Trees	357
	Something the Cat Dragged In	375
	Not One of Us	393
	The Terrors of Basket-Weaving	406
	Under a Dark Angel's Eye	417
	I Despise Your Life	433
	The Dream of the Emma C	454
	Old Folks at Home	474
	When in Rome	494
	Blow It	515
	The Kite	530
	The Black House	546
	Mermaids on the Golf Course	565
	The Button	577
	Where the Action Is	592
	Chris's Last Party	606
	A Clock Ticks at Christmas	626
	A Shot from Nowhere	640
	The Stuff of Madness	658
	Not in This Life, Maybe the Next	671
	I Am Not As Efficient As Other People	685
	The Cruelest Month	697
	The Romantic	712