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Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes (Hardcover)

by Patricia Highsmith (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (29 Oct 1987)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0747500975
  • ISBN-13: 978-0747500971
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,807,945 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Highsmith is a novelist whose books one can re-read many times. There are few of whom one can say that' Graham Greene 'Highsmith has an incredible talent for making these natural and unnatural errors into believable reportage. You could swear she's writing fact wrapped up in very sly fiction' San Francisco Chronicle 'Though Highsmith would no doubt disclaim any kinship with Jonathan Swift or Evelyn Waugh, the best of these stories is in the same tradition It is Highsmith's dark and savage humour, and the intelligence that informs her precise and hard-edged prose, which puts one in the mind of those authors' New York Newsday 'These stories leave us haunted with afterimages that will tremble - but stay in our minds' New Yorker --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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‘An incredible talent ... You could swear she’s writing fact wrapped up in very sly fiction’ --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Controlled and clever, 11 Sep 2009
By E. Shaw "Kokoschka's_cat" (Leeds, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes (Paperback)
In this small but somehow weighty book, Highsmith gives us ten controlled and clever stories which unsettle and unnerve the reader as much as they entertain. Highsmith is a past master at the seemingly banal setting, turning one's preconceptions into stark unease.

Sometimes, however, she forgets all subtlety and at times sinks into the actually banal, as here with her tale of Rent-A-Womb Versus the Mighty Right. However, at her best in far more of these stories than not, she is frequently unreservedly brilliant. I was captivated by Moby Dick II; or The Missile Whale, and by the cockroach infested luxury tower-block in Trouble at the Jade Towers. Highsmith is an acquired taste, but one which, once acquired, is difficult to satisfy. You just want to read more and more.
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