Patricia Highsmith : selected novels and short stories
by Highsmith, Patricia, 1921-1995.
Summary
Collects two novels and thirteen short stories by American writer Patricia Highsmith, including "Strangers on a Train" in which successful architect Guy Haines is harassed on a train by Charles Bruno, who offers to kill Haines' estranged wife if Haines will in turn kill Bruno's father--and then goes... Full description
- Highsmith country: an intrduction by Joan Schenkar
- Strangers on a train
- A mighty nice man
- The still point of the turning world
- Where the door is always open and the welcome mat is out
- Quiet night
- In the plaza
- The great cardhouse
- The baby spoon
- The price of salt
- Oona, the jolly cave woman
- Disagreeable pigeons
- Not one of us
- Woodrow wilson's necktie
- The terrors of basket-weaving
- The trouble with Mrs. Blynn, the trouble with the world.