Patricia Highsmith: Mermaids on the Golf Course |
From the Publisher: The stories collected in Mermaids on the Golf Course are among Highsmith's most mature, psychologically penetrating works. As in the title story, in which a man's brush with death endows his everyday desires with tragic consequences, the warm familiarities of middle-class life become the eerie setting for Highsmith's chilling portrayals of violence, secrecy, and madness. "An atmosphere of nameless dread, of unspeakable foreboding, permeates every page of Patricia Highsmith, and there's nothing quite like it." - Boston Globe Patricia Highsmith: Mermaids on the Golf Course. W.W. Norton, ISBN: 0393324567 (July, 2003), 239 p., $12.95.
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