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Nothing that meets the eye

the uncollected stories

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An edition of Nothing That Meets the Eye (2002)

Nothing that meets the eye

the uncollected stories

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Short Stories. This volume of stories, many of them published here for the first time, spans almost fifty years of Highsmith's career. Showing the evolution of her writing from her days as a struggling freelancer living in New York in the 1940s to her later years when she was an expatriate in Switzerland, they reveal her trademark dark themes such as the married man who dates women out of secret revenge against their sex, and the suicidal woman who finds that in her despair she is a sexual magnet. These are suspenseful, playful, taut and psychologically gripping stories, evidence of an extraordinary talent.

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Bloomsbury
Language
English
Pages
455

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Nothing that meets the eye: the uncollected stories
2006, Bloomsbury
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Nothing That Meets the Eye: The Uncollected Stories of Patricia Highsmith
November 2003, W. W. Norton & Company
in English
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Nothing That Meets the Eye: The Uncollected Stories of Patricia Highsmith
2003, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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Nothing That Meets the Eye: The Uncollected Stories of Patricia Highsmith
November 2003, W. W. Norton & Company
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Table of Contents

pt. I. Early stories, 1938-1949
Mightiest mornings --
Uncertain treasure --
Magic casements --
Miss Juste and the green rompers --
When the door is always open and the welcome mat is out --
In the plaza --
Hollow oracle --
Great cardhouse --
Car --
Still point of the turning world --
Pianos of the Steinachs --
Mighty nice man --
Quiet night --
Doorbell for Louisa.
pt. II. Middle and later stories, 1952-1982
Bird in hand --
Music to die by --
Man's best friend --
Born failure --
Dangerous hobby --
Returnees --
Nothing that meets the eye --
Two disagreeable pigeons --
Variations on a game --
Girl like Phyl --
It's a deal --
Things had gone badly --
Trouble with Mrs. Blynn, the trouble with the world --
Second cigarette.

Edition Notes

Originally published in Great Britain 2005.

Copyright Date
2005

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813.54
Library of Congress
PS3558.I366

The Physical Object

Pagination
455 pages
Number of pages
455

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL32129663M
Internet Archive
nothingthatmeets0000high_l1o7
ISBN 10
0747579342
ISBN 13
9780747579342
OCLC/WorldCat
271862700

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