Showing A Suspension of Mercy by Patricia Highsmith

Paperback. Pub Date: 2001 08 Pages: 224 Publisher: WW Norton & Co. With The Acclaim for The Talented Mr. Ripley more film projects in production and two biographies forthcoming the Expatriate legend Patricia Highsmith would be shocked to see that she has finally arrived in her homeland. Throughout her career. Highsmith ought a keen literary eye and a genius for plumbing the psychopathic mind to more than thirty works of fiction. unparalleled in their placid deviousness and sardonic humor. With deadpan accuracy. she delighted in creating true sociopaths in the guise of the everyday man or woman. Now. one of her finest works is again in print: A Suspension of Mercy. a masterpiece of noir fantasy. With this novel. Highsmith revels in eliciting the unsettling psychological forces that lurk beneath the surface of everyday contemporary life. For eliciting the menace that lurks in ...