Patricia Highsmith selected novels and short stories
Collects two novels and thirteen short stories by American writer Patricia Highsmith, including "Strangers on a Train" in which successful architect Guy Haines is harassed on a train by Charles Bruno, who offers to kill Haines' estranged wife if Haines will in turn kill Bruno's father--and then goes...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
W.W. Norton & Co.,
c2011.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Highsmith country: an intrduction by Joan Schenkar
- Strangers on a train
- A mighty nice man
- The still point of the turning world
- Where the door is always open and the welcome mat is out
- Quiet night
- In the plaza
- The great cardhouse
- The baby spoon
- The price of salt
- Oona, the jolly cave woman
- Disagreeable pigeons
- Not one of us
- Woodrow wilson's necktie
- The terrors of basket-weaving
- The trouble with Mrs. Blynn, the trouble with the world.
