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    Under a Dark Angel's Eye: The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith

    Patricia Highsmith

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    Disturbing, exhilarating, potent, savagely funny.

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    This Sweet Sickness
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    Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks
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    Strangers on a Train
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    The Two Faces of January
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    Found in the Street
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    A Game for the Living
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    Small g: A Summer Idyll
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    The Boy Who Followed Ripley
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    Praise for Under a Dark Angel's Eye

    • By opening this book, you've given Patricia Highsmith permission to follow you, catch you, take you apart. Get ready to run!A writer who has created a world of her own - a world claustrophobic and irrational which we enter each time with a sense of personal danger . . . Highsmith is the poet of apprehensionEvery story by the unparalleled master Patricia Highsmith shimmers like a dark gem as she turns her gimlet eye on domesticity, suburban madness, toxic families, the loneliness of childhood. Often mordantly funny and always psychologically acute, this collection is not to be missed.For eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there's no one like Patricia Highsmith - Time

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    Patricia Highsmith

    Patricia Highsmith

    Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and moved to New York when she was six. In her senior year, she edited the college magazine, having decided at the age of sixteen to become a writer. Her first novel, Strangers on a Train (1950), was made into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. The Talented Mr Ripley (1955), introduced the fascinating anti-hero Tom Ripley, and was made into an Oscar-winning film in 1999 by Anthony Minghella. Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland, in February 1995. Her last novel, Small g: A Summer Idyll, was published posthumously, the same year.

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