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The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith (original 2001; edition 2005)

by Patricia Highsmith

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In a cruel twist of irony, Texas-born Patricia Highsmith is only now, six years after her death, being recognized for her inestimable genius in her native land. With the savage humor of Evelyn Waugh and the macabre sensibility of Edgar Allan Poe, she brought a distinct twentieth-century acuity to her prolific body of noir fiction. Called "the poet of apprehension" by Graham Greene, Highsmith was unrivaled in capturing the ways in which our seemingly benign neighbors can become the psychopaths next door. Now, five of her classic short story collections are combined in a single volume, The selected stories of Patricia Highsmith, with a foreword by Graham Greene.… (more)
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Of use to me only for the first section, a collection of stories about 'murderous' animals, including a rat, camel, elephant, dog, cat, and perhaps a tapeworm of some sort. Oddly, the animals seem to share her prejudices, all which are multiple and at best embarrassing: against Italians, 'natives,' and so forth.

Otherwise, I just don't get the fascination w/ her. If John Cheever--or Kingsley Amis-had a stupider younger sibling who thought a fascination w/ violence and mere cleverness substituted for insight, this is what would be produced. Better fictional explorations of evil (or demonic evil, i.e., evil w/out a goal) can be found in Pär Lagerkvist's The Dwarf, and a better exploration of obsession and misanthropy can be found in Evan S. Connell's Diary of a Rapist. ( )
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In a cruel twist of irony, Texas-born Patricia Highsmith is only now, six years after her death, being recognized for her inestimable genius in her native land. With the savage humor of Evelyn Waugh and the macabre sensibility of Edgar Allan Poe, she brought a distinct twentieth-century acuity to her prolific body of noir fiction. Called "the poet of apprehension" by Graham Greene, Highsmith was unrivaled in capturing the ways in which our seemingly benign neighbors can become the psychopaths next door. Now, five of her classic short story collections are combined in a single volume, The selected stories of Patricia Highsmith, with a foreword by Graham Greene.

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