Mermaids on the Golf Course: A Virago Modern Classic
Mar 2014 · Hachette UK
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BY THE BESTSELLING AND AWARD-WINNING AMERICAN CRIME NOVELIST OF ALL TIME
The bestselling author of The Talented Mr Ripley, Carol and Strangers on a Train
'For eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there's no one like Patricia Highsmith' TIME
'They compel attention and they add significantly to her already formidable presence' WASHINGTON POST
'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' THE TIMES
The stories collected in Mermaids on the Golf Course are among Patricia Highsmith's most mature, psychologically penetrating works. Published in the latter part of her career, these stories reveal Highsmith's mastery of the short story form. Moving between locales as various as France, Mexico, Zurich and New York, Highsmith transforms the mundane features of everyday life into an eerie backdrop for her penetrating stories of violence, secrecy, and madness.
In The Stuff of Madness, Christopher Waggoner, increasingly dismayed by his wife's habit of preserving dead pets in their garden, enacts a devious revenge by adding a bizarre new exhibit to their collection; in the title story, an eminent economist's brush with death endows his once-familiar desires with tragic consequences; and in A Shot from Nowhere, a young painter who witnesses a gruesome death on a vacant Mexican Street becomes trapped in an unimaginable nightmare.
In these piercing stories, Highsmith creates a world all the more frightening because we recognise it as our own . . .
The bestselling author of The Talented Mr Ripley, Carol and Strangers on a Train
'For eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there's no one like Patricia Highsmith' TIME
'They compel attention and they add significantly to her already formidable presence' WASHINGTON POST
'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' THE TIMES
The stories collected in Mermaids on the Golf Course are among Patricia Highsmith's most mature, psychologically penetrating works. Published in the latter part of her career, these stories reveal Highsmith's mastery of the short story form. Moving between locales as various as France, Mexico, Zurich and New York, Highsmith transforms the mundane features of everyday life into an eerie backdrop for her penetrating stories of violence, secrecy, and madness.
In The Stuff of Madness, Christopher Waggoner, increasingly dismayed by his wife's habit of preserving dead pets in their garden, enacts a devious revenge by adding a bizarre new exhibit to their collection; in the title story, an eminent economist's brush with death endows his once-familiar desires with tragic consequences; and in A Shot from Nowhere, a young painter who witnesses a gruesome death on a vacant Mexican Street becomes trapped in an unimaginable nightmare.
In these piercing stories, Highsmith creates a world all the more frightening because we recognise it as our own . . .
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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