{"product_id":"patricia-highsmith-selected-novels-and-short-stories-9780393080131","title":"Patricia Highsmith: Selected Novels and Short Stories","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePatricia Highsmith: Selected Novels and Short Stories\u003c\/strong\u003e by Highsmith, Patricia. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780393080131.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Patricia Highsmiths novels are peerlessly disturbing . . . bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night.\"―The New Yorker The remarkable renaissance of Patricia Highsmith continues with the publication of Patricia Highsmith: Selected Novels and Short Stories, featuring two groundbreaking novels as well as a trove of penetrating short stories. With a critical introduction by Joan Schenkar, situating Highsmiths classic works within her own tumultuous life, this book provides a useful guide to some of her most dazzlingly seductive writing. Strangers on a Train (1950), transformed into a legendary film by Alfred Hitchcock, displays Highsmiths genius for psychological characterization and tortuous suspense, while The Price of Salt (1952), with its lesbian lovers and a creepy PI, provides a thrilling and highly controversial depiction of \"the love that dare not speak its name.\" Patricia Highsmith: Selected Novels and Short Stories firmly establishes Highsmiths centrality to American culture by presenting key works that went on to influence a half-century of literature and film. Abandoned by the wider reading public in her lifetime, Highsmith finally gets the canonical recognition that is her due.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44984842190901,"sku":"ByrdShop_0393080137","price":37.07,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780393080131_178c840d-26a5-4c4b-a91f-d288d071e40a.jpg?v=1778909312","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/patricia-highsmith-selected-novels-and-short-stories-9780393080131","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}