Author : Patricia Highsmith
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393345653
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)
Book Synopsis Mermaids on the Golf Course: Stories by : Patricia Highsmith
Download or read book Mermaids on the Golf Course: Stories written by Patricia Highsmith and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2003-07-17 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great revival of interest in Patricia Highsmith continues with this work that reveals the chilling reality behind the idyllic facade of American suburban life. 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.