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In this eerily up-to-date collection, Highsmith’s incisive prose chronicles a world gone slightly mad, its catastrophes precipitated by human folly and excess. From the White House under siege by the homeless to a 190-year-old woman perpetually near death and dimly glowing, each tale unfolds the illogical extremes of humanity in the late twentieth century. Highsmith transmogrifies the face of daily existence to lay bare its manifold dark motives. These stories leave us haunted with “afterimages that will tremble—but stay—in our minds” (The New Yorker).
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Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes, Patricia Highsmith
- Language
- Released
- 1989
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Patricia Highsmith
- Publisher
- Atlantic Monthly Press
- Released
- 1989
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 189
- ISBN10
- 0871132516
- ISBN13
- 9780871132512
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Mystery & Thriller, Mystery Novels, Humor, Short Stories, Horror, 20th century, Stories, Horror Short Stories, Disasters
- Original title
- Tales of natural and unnatural catastrophes
- Rating
- 3.55 out of 5
- Description
- In this eerily up-to-date collection, Highsmith’s incisive prose chronicles a world gone slightly mad, its catastrophes precipitated by human folly and excess. From the White House under siege by the homeless to a 190-year-old woman perpetually near death and dimly glowing, each tale unfolds the illogical extremes of humanity in the late twentieth century. Highsmith transmogrifies the face of daily existence to lay bare its manifold dark motives. These stories leave us haunted with “afterimages that will tremble—but stay—in our minds” (The New Yorker).