Nothing That Meets the Eye: The Uncollected Stories of Patricia Highsmith Book

Nothing That Meets the Eye confirms Patricia Highsmith as a great American writer. If only Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) had been alive to see the thunderous critical response to the publication of the best-selling The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith in 2001. Now the Highsmith renaissance continues with this brilliant collection of 28 short stories, a great majority of which have never been seen before. The stories assembled in Nothing That Meets the Eye, written between 1938 and 1982, are vintage Highsmith: a gigolo-like psychopath preys on unfulfilled career women; a lonely spinster's fragile hold on reality is tethered to the bottle; an estranged postal worker invents homicidal fantasies about his coworkers. While some stories anticipate the diabolical narratives of the Ripley novels, others possess a Capra-like sweetness that forces us to see the author in a new light. From this new collection, a remarkable portrait of the American psyche at mid-century emerges, unforgettably distilled by the inimitable eye of Patricia Highsmith.Read More