The black house
by Patricia Highsmith
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"Horrific tragedy becomes disturbingly ordinary in The Black House, a 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 collection of eleven stories presents Highsmith at her finest: melancholy, suspenseful, and sizzling with a powerful awareness of human emotion."--Jacket.
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An intense, macabre anthology focusing not only on murder, but also on more unusual crimes and misdemeanours that are beyond the reaches of prosecution. Told in Highsmith's typically impassive, lucid writing style, the work has been noted for its high degree of tension and, in some cases, surrealism.
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"Something the Cat Dragged In"
"Not One of Us"
"The Terror of Basket-Weaving"
"Under a Dark Angel's Eye"
"I Despise Your Life"
"The Dream of the Emma C"
"Old Folks at Home"
"When in Rome"
"Blow It"
"The Kite"
"The Black House"
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