Mermaids on the Golf Course

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"One of the exhilarating effects of reading Highsmith's stories... is their surehandedness, their amazing breadth and abundance... they compel attention and they add significantly to hpr already formidable presence."-James Lasdun, Washington Fost fThe stories collected in Mermaids on the Golf Course, first pubjlished in 1985; are among Patricia Highsmith's most mature, psychologically penetrating works. Published in the latter part of her career, these stories reveal Highsmith's mastery of the jshort story form. Moving between locales as various as fFrance, Mexico, Zürich, and New York, Highsmith transforms jthe mundane features of everyday life into an éerie setting for jher chilling portrayals of violence, secrecy, and madness. In "The Stuff of MadneáB," Christopher Waggoner, inereasingly klismayed by his wife's habit of preserving dead pets in their jgarden, enacts a devious revenge by adding a bizarre new lexhibit to their coüection; in the title story, an eminent economist's... Tovább

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"One of the exhilarating effects of reading Highsmith's stories... is their surehandedness, their amazing breadth and abundance... they compel attention and they add significantly to hpr already formidable presence."-James Lasdun, Washington Fost fThe stories collected in Mermaids on the Golf Course, first pubjlished in 1985; are among Patricia Highsmith's most mature, psychologically penetrating works. Published in the latter part of her career, these stories reveal Highsmith's mastery of the jshort story form. Moving between locales as various as fFrance, Mexico, Zürich, and New York, Highsmith transforms jthe mundane features of everyday life into an éerie setting for jher chilling portrayals of violence, secrecy, and madness. In "The Stuff of MadneáB," Christopher Waggoner, inereasingly klismayed by his wife's habit of preserving dead pets in their jgarden, enacts a devious revenge by adding a bizarre new lexhibit to their coüection; in the title story, an eminent economist's brush with death endows his once-familiar desires with rtragic consequences; and in "A Shot from Nowhere," a young bainter who witnesses a gruesome death on a vacant Mexican [street becomes trapped in an unimaginable nightmare. In these piercing stóries, Highsmith cpeates a world all the more frightening bec|tuse we recognize it ás our own. r A true master of the psychological thriller." -Bookforum patricia Highsmith is the author of such classics as Strangers ]pn a Train and The Tdlented Mr. Ripley. She died in 1995 in jLocarno, Switzerland. Norton alsó publishes Nothing That |Meets the Eye: The Uncollected Stories of Patricia Highsmith, which was 4iamed a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times an4 the Washington Post. Vissza