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Mermaids on the Golf Course

by Patricia Highsmith
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The great revival of interest in Patricia Highsmith continues with this work that reveals the chilling reality behind the idyllic facade of American suburban life.

The stories collected in Mermaids on the Golf Course are among Highsmith's most mature, psychologically penetrating works. As in the title story, in which a man's brush with death endows his everyday desires with tragic consequences, the warm familiarities of middle-class life become the eerie setting for Highsmith's chilling portrayals of violence, secrecy, and madness.
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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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  • ISBN: 9780393345650
  • File size: 396 KB
  • Release date: May 28, 2012

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  • ISBN: 9780393345650
  • File size: 396 KB
  • Release date: May 28, 2012
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Fiction Suspense Thriller

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English

The great revival of interest in Patricia Highsmith continues with this work that reveals the chilling reality behind the idyllic facade of American suburban life.

The stories collected in Mermaids on the Golf Course are among Highsmith's most mature, psychologically penetrating works. As in the title story, in which a man's brush with death endows his everyday desires with tragic consequences, the warm familiarities of middle-class life become the eerie setting for Highsmith's chilling portrayals of violence, secrecy, and madness.
Expand title description text
Fiction Suspense Thriller
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