Horrific tragedy becomes disturbingly ordinary in The Black House, a masterful collection of short stories, written during a particularly dark time in Patricia Highsmith's life. As readers will discover, the work eerily evokes the warm familiarities of suburban life: the manicured...
With Norton's publication of Slowly, Slowly in the Wind and The Black House, Patricia Highsmith's entire body of work is now back in print. First published in 1979 and 1981, respectively, these two volumes are among Highsmith's most nuanced and psychologically suspenseful works...