{"product_id":"nothing-that-meets-the-eye-the-uncollected-stories-of-patricia-highsmith-9780393051872","title":"Nothing That Meets the Eye: The Uncollected Stories of Patricia Highsmith","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Highsmith is no more a practitioner of the murder mystery genre...than are Doestoevsky  Faulkner and Camus.\"Joan Smith  Los Angeles Times The Patricia Highsmith renaissance continues with Nothing That Meets the Eye  a brilliant collection of twenty-eight psychologically penetrating stories  a great majority of which are published for the first time in this collection. This volume spans almost fifty years of Highsmiths career and establishes her as a permanent member of our American literary canon  as attested by recent publication of two of these stories in The New Yorker and Harpers. The stories assembled in Nothing That Meets the Eye  written between 1938 and 1982  are vintage Highsmith: a gigolo-like psychopath preys on unfulfilled career women; a lonely spinsters fragile hold on reality is tethered to the bottle; an estranged postal worker invents homicidal fantasies about his coworkers. While some stories anticipate the diabolical narratives of the Ripley novels  others possess a Capra-like sweetness that forces us to see the author in a new light. From this new collection  a remarkable portrait of the American psyche at mid-century emerges  unforgettably distilled by the inimitable eye of Patricia Highsmith.  A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post Rave of 2002. \"Almost every piece...contains touches that reveal what a subtle writer Highsmith was.\"James Campbell  New York Times \"A thrilling compendium of work full of surprises.\"Ed Siegel  Boston Globe \"One of the exhilarating effects of reading Highsmiths stories...is the greatly enlarged sense of her range and energy...in their surehandedness  their amazing breadth and abundance...these stories compel attention and they add significantly to her already formidable presence.\"James Lasdun  Washington Post\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45646884110389,"sku":"ByrdShop_0393051870","price":21.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780393051872.jpg?v=1781679878","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/nothing-that-meets-the-eye-the-uncollected-stories-of-patricia-highsmith-9780393051872","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}