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TALES OF NATURAL AND UNNATURAL CATASTROPHES
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| By: |
Patricia Highsmith |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£6.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0747554358 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780747554356 |
| Publisher: |
BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC |
| Pub. date: |
7 February, 2005 |
| Edition: |
UK open market ed |
| Pages: |
192 |
| Description: |
A collection of unsettling tales. |
| Synopsis: |
A brilliant collection of stories, based on natural and unnatural catastrophes and exploring the macabre and its meaning. The stories range from midnight revelling in an East Austrian cemetery to a picnic for "crackpots" on the White House lawn. They also include the source of the tell-tale smells of Nabuti, the unsporting hiding place chosen by the Nuclear Control Committee for radio-active waste, and the crumbling defence tactics of a luxury high-rise against a crawling army that fumigation cannot kill. Other tales tell of how magic and horror stories followed in the wake of a furious whale, how miracle and revolution were launched when a Pope stubbed his toe, and how happiness came to a woman who thought she was Cleopatra. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Returns: |
Returnable |