Volume 48, Number 18 · November 15, 2001
Dark Laughter
By Joyce Carol Oates
The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith
by Patricia Highsmith, with a foreword by Graham Greene
Norton, 724 pp., $27.95
A Suspension of Mercy
by Patricia Highsmith
Norton, 235 pp., $11.00 (paper)
Patricia Highsmith (1921–1995) is the author of twenty-two novels under her own name and one pseudonymous novel (The Price of Salt, under the name Clare Morgan), as well as five collections of short stories of varying degrees of ambition and quality. Always best known for her brilliantly conceived and flawlessly executed first novel, Strangers on a Train (1950), from which a popular Hitchcock film was made in 1951, Highsmith, a Texas-born expatriate who lived abroad for most of her adult life and died in Switzerland, came to short fiction rel-atively late in her career with the publication of her first collection, The Animal-Lover's Book of Beastly Murder in 1975.
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