Nothing that Meets the Eye

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With 28 stories, most of which have never been published before, Nothing That Meets the Eye: The Uncollected Stories of Patrícia Highsmith is a cause for literary celebration. PRAISE FOR "Highsmith's writing is wicked... it puts a spell on you, after which you feel altered, even tainted... a great American writer is back to stay." -Mark Harris, Entertainment Weekly "She edges her readers toward the insane territory inhabited by her people... readers are sure to be left feeling by turns startled, oppressed, amused and queasy." -Richárd Davenport-Hines, New York Times Book Review "Patricia Highsmith's novels are peerlessly disturbing ... bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night." -The New Yorker "For eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there's no one like Patricia Highsmith." -Time "An atmosphere of nameless dread, of unspeakable foreboding, permeates every page of Patricia Highsmith, and there's nothing quite like it." -Boston Globe "To call... Tovább

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With 28 stories, most of which have never been published before, Nothing That Meets the Eye: The Uncollected Stories of Patrícia Highsmith is a cause for literary celebration. PRAISE FOR "Highsmith's writing is wicked... it puts a spell on you, after which you feel altered, even tainted... a great American writer is back to stay." -Mark Harris, Entertainment Weekly "She edges her readers toward the insane territory inhabited by her people... readers are sure to be left feeling by turns startled, oppressed, amused and queasy." -Richárd Davenport-Hines, New York Times Book Review "Patricia Highsmith's novels are peerlessly disturbing ... bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night." -The New Yorker "For eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there's no one like Patricia Highsmith." -Time "An atmosphere of nameless dread, of unspeakable foreboding, permeates every page of Patricia Highsmith, and there's nothing quite like it." -Boston Globe "To call Patricia Highsmith a thriller writer is true but not the whole truth: her books have stylistic texture, psychological depth, mesmeric readability." -The Sunday Times (London) "Highsmith writes the verbal equivalent of a drug-easy to consume, darkly euphoric, totally addictive____Highsmith belongs in the moody company of Dostoevsky or Angéla Carter." -Dávid Cote, Time Out Vissza