The Black House - by Patricia Highsmith (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A border zone of the macabre, the disturbing, the not-quite accidental. --John Gross, <em>New York Times Book Review</em><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Horrific tragedy becomes disturbingly ordinary in <em>The Black House</em>, a masterful collection of short stories, written during a particularly dark time in Patricia Highsmith's life. As readers will discover, the work eerily evokes the warm familiarities of suburban life: the manicured lawns, the white picket fences, and the local pubs, each providing the backbone for her chilling portraits. Seemingly small indiscretions and infidelities--along with love affairs and murder--consume the characters that commit them. Cycles of destructive jealousy overwhelm the cheating protagonists of "Blow It" and "When in Rome," and the title story explores small-town male camaraderie and the destructive secret it masks. This enthralling collection of eleven stories presents Highsmith at her finest: melancholy, suspenseful, and sizzling with a powerful awareness of human emotion.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Highsmith writes the verbal equivalent of a drug--easy to consume, darkly euphoric, totally addictive."<br>
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