{"product_id":"nothing-that-meets-the-eye-the-uncollected-stories-of-patricia-highsmith","title":"Nothing That Meets the Eye: The Uncollected Stories of Patricia Highsmith","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eNothing That Meets the Eye: The Uncollected Stories of Patricia Highsmith\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003ePatricia Highsmith\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780393051872\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eW. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2002\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e480\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eModerate edge wear. Binding good. May have marking in text. We sometimes source from libraries. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Patricia Highsmith renaissance continues with \u003cem\u003eNothing That Meets the Eye\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 Highsmith's career and establishes her as a permanent member of our American literary canon, as attested by recent publication of two of these stories in \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eHarper's\u003c\/em\u003e. The stories assembled in \u003cem\u003eNothing That Meets the Eye\u003c\/em\u003e, written between 1938 and 1982, are vintage Highsmith: a gigolo-like psychopath preys on unfulfilled career women; a lonely spinster's 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Notable Book and a \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e Rave of 2002. \"Almost every piece...contains touches that reveal what a subtle writer Highsmith was.\"--James Campbell, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e \"A thrilling compendium of work full of surprises.\"--Ed Siegel, \u003cem\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e \"One of the exhilarating effects of reading Highsmith's 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, \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Nothing That Meets the Eye: The Uncollected Stories of Patricia Highsmith | Patricia Highsmith | Hardcover | 9780393051872 | Used: Good | Mystery 1767556 (temp: 27)","offer_id":49447818363032,"sku":"1767556","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81br036g7LL.jpg?v=1783886525","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/nothing-that-meets-the-eye-the-uncollected-stories-of-patricia-highsmith","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}