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Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes

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In this eerily up-to-date collection, Highsmith’s incisive prose chronicles a world gone slightly mad, its catastrophes precipitated by human folly and excess. From the White House under siege by the homeless to a 190-year-old woman perpetually near death and dimly glowing, each tale unfolds the illogical extremes of humanity in the late twentieth century. Highsmith transmogrifies the face of daily existence to lay bare its manifold dark motives. These stories leave us haunted with “afterimages that will tremble—but stay—in our minds” (The New Yorker).

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Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes, Patricia Highsmithová

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Rok vydania
1989
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Jazyk
anglicky
Rok vydania
1989
Väzba
pevná
Počet strán
189
ISBN10
0871132516
ISBN13
9780871132512
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Pôvodný názov
Tales of natural and unnatural catastrophes
Hodnotenie
3,55 z 5
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In this eerily up-to-date collection, Highsmith’s incisive prose chronicles a world gone slightly mad, its catastrophes precipitated by human folly and excess. From the White House under siege by the homeless to a 190-year-old woman perpetually near death and dimly glowing, each tale unfolds the illogical extremes of humanity in the late twentieth century. Highsmith transmogrifies the face of daily existence to lay bare its manifold dark motives. These stories leave us haunted with “afterimages that will tremble—but stay—in our minds” (The New Yorker).