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Under a Dark Angel's Eye

The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith
By Patricia Highsmith
Series: Virago Modern Classics
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Under a Dark Angel's Eye is a collection of darkly exhilarating and disturbingly potent stories by Patricia Highsmith, exploring themes of domesticity, suburban madness, toxic families, and the haunting loneliness of childhood. Each tale glimmers with mordant humour and psychological acuity, delving deep into the menace that hides in familiar surroundings.
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Fans of psychological horror, literary suspense, and dark, emotionally complex short stories will find this collection compelling. Ideal for readers who appreciate incisive explorations of human nature’s darker recesses.

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Under a Dark Angel's Eye

Disturbing, exhilarating, potent, savagely funny.

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Disturbing, exhilarating, potent, savagely funny.

Series: Virago Modern Classics

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Critics praise Highsmith’s razor-sharp eye for human darkness and her ability to provoke unease and fascination. Carmen Maria Machado warns readers to brace themselves, while Megan Abbott highlights her mordant wit and psychological insight. The Times celebrates Highsmith as unmatched in revealing menace in everyday life, Graham Greene calls her the 'poet of apprehension,' and Yiyun Li describes her work as a chilling labyrinth of dark dreams and irrational urges. Richard notes her macabre brilliance as one of the finest in English writing.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780349014784

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 14 January 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Virago Press Ltd

Contributors:

  • Introduction by Carmen Maria Machado

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 46.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 840g

Pages: 640

Collections

Classic Fiction Crime & Thriller Fiction General Fiction Horror & Supernatural Patricia Highsmith Psychological Thriller Series: Virago Modern Classics

About the Author

Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and moved to New York when she was six. In her senior year, she edited the college magazine, having decided at the age of sixteen to become a writer. Her first novel, Strangers on a Train (1950), was made into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. The Talented Mr Ripley (1955), introduced the fascinating anti-hero Tom Ripley, and was made into an Oscar-winning film in 1999 by Anthony Minghella. Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland, in February 1995. Her last novel, Small g: A Summer Idyll, was published posthumously, the same year.

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