Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes write by Patricia Highsmith. This book was released on 2011-11-08. Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Short stories filled with “satire, mischief, and menace” by the author of The Talented Mr. Ripley (Harper’s Bazaar). These ten stories chronicle a world gone slightly mad, with dark, inventive takes on environmental degradation, apocalyptic disaster, political chaos, religious conservatism, and more. From a winner of both an O. Henry Award and a Silver Dagger Award, among other honors, and the author of Strangers on a Train, the basis for the classic Hitchcock film, this collection of short fiction is filled with “afterimages that will tremble—but stay—in our minds” (The New Yorker). “Whereas we read Stephen King or Ruth Rendell to relish the thrills that come from carefully controlled verbal terror, Highsmith is not to be taken so lightly. She conveys a firm, unshakable belief in the existence of evil—personal, psychological, and political. . . . The genius of Tales—and all of Highsmith’s writing—is that it is at once deeply disturbing and exhilarating.” —The Boston Phoenix “Combining the best features of the suspense genre with the best of existential fiction . . . The stories are fabulous, in all senses of that word.” —Paul Theroux
Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction
Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction write by Patricia Highsmith. This book was released on 2001-09-08. Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Originally published in Great Britain by Polar Press Limited.
The Black House
The Black House - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Black House write by Patricia Highsmith. This book was released on 2004-12-17. The Black House available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A border zone of the macabre, the disturbing, the not-quite accidental." —John Gross, New York Times Book Review Horrific tragedy becomes disturbingly ordinary in The Black House, a masterful collection of short stories, written during a particularly dark time in Patricia Highsmith's life. As readers will discover, the work eerily evokes the warm familiarities of suburban life: the manicured lawns, the white picket fences, and the local pubs, each providing the backbone for her chilling portraits. Seemingly small indiscretions and infidelities—along with love affairs and murder—consume the characters that commit them. Cycles of destructive jealousy overwhelm the cheating protagonists of "Blow It" and "When in Rome," and the title story explores small-town male camaraderie and the destructive secret it masks. This enthralling collection of eleven stories presents Highsmith at her finest: melancholy, suspenseful, and sizzling with a powerful awareness of human emotion.
Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophies
Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophies write by Patricia Highsmith. This book was released on 2005. Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith
The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith write by Patricia Highsmith. This book was released on 2001. The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With the savage humor of Waugh and the macabre sensibility of Poe, Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) brought a distinctly contemporary acuteness to her prolific body of noir fiction. Including over 60 short stories written throughout her career, this collection reveals the stunning versatility and terrifying power of her work.
