| Title:
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ELEVEN
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| By: |
Patricia Highsmith |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£7.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0747575002 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780747575009 |
| Publisher: |
BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC |
| Pub. date: |
21 May, 2007 |
| Edition: |
UK open market ed |
| Pages: |
192 |
| Description: |
A collection in which unsuspecting victims are devoured by their own obsessions: a man becomes devoted to his pet snails; a young nanny turns arsonist in a bid to become heroine of the hour; and, a boy finally stands up to his mother, with knife in hand. It probes the dark corners of the human psyche. |
| Synopsis: |
Unsuspecting victims are devoured by their own obsessions in this perfectly chilling collection. A man becomes devoted to his pet snails, with fatal results. A young nanny turns arsonist in a bid to become heroine of the hour. A boy finally stands up to his mother, with knife in hand. Highsmith weaves a world claustrophobic in its intensity, disturbing in its mundanity, as she probes the dark corners of the human psyche. "Eleven" is a collection of masterpieces of Highsmith's particular art, full of compulsion, foreboding and cruel pleasures. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Returns: |
Returnable |