The selected stories of Patricia Highsmith

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The selected stories of Patricia Highsmith

Patricia Highsmith

W.W. Norton, 2005

  • : pbk

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foreword by Graham Greene

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  • Chorus girl's absolutely final performance
  • Djemal's revenge
  • There I was, stuck with Bubsy
  • Ming's biggest prey
  • In the dead of truffle season
  • The bravest rat in Venice
  • Engine horse
  • The day of reckoning
  • Notes from a respectable cockroach
  • Eddie and the monkey robberies
  • Hamsters vs. Websters
  • Harry: a ferret
  • Goat ride
  • The hand
  • Oona, the jolly cave woman
  • The coquette
  • The female novelist
  • The dancer
  • The invalid, or, the bedridden
  • The artist
  • The middle-class housewife
  • The fully licensed whore, or, the wife
  • The breeder
  • The mobile bed-object
  • The perfect little lady
  • The silent mother-in-law
  • The prude
  • The victim
  • The evangelist
  • The perfectionist
  • The man who wrote books in his head
  • The network
  • The pond
  • Something you have to live with
  • Slowly, slowly in the wind
  • Those awful dawns
  • Woodrow Wilson's necktie
  • One for the islands
  • A curious suicide
  • The baby spoon
  • Broken glass
  • Please don't shoot the trees
  • Something the cat dragged in
  • Not one of us
  • The terrors of basket-weaving
  • Under a dark angel's eye
  • I despise your life
  • The dream of the Emma C
  • Old folks at home
  • When in Rome
  • Blow it
  • The kite
  • The black house
  • Mermaids on the golf course
  • The button
  • Where the action is
  • Chris's last party
  • A clock ticks at Christmas
  • A shot from nowhere
  • The stuff of madness
  • Not in this life, maybe the next
  • I am not as efficient as other people
  • The cruelest month
  • The romantic

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