{"product_id":"books-eleven-by-patricia-highsmith","title":"Eleven","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShort stories of suspense by the author of \u003ci\u003eStrangers on a Train\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Talented Mr. Ripley\u003c\/i\u003e-a brilliant collection with a foreword by Graham Greene (\u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaster of tension Patricia Highsmith is best known for her novels of ever-increasing suspense, but she is equally adept at the short story, where she is after the quick kill rather than the slow encirclement of the reader. \u003ci\u003eEleven \u003c\/i\u003eis Highsmith's first collection of short stories--dark masterpieces of obsession and foreboding, violence and instability (Graham Greene, from the foreword).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these pages, naturalists meet gruesome ends and unhinged heroes disturb our sympathies; simple cases of murder turn out to be something even more sinister, and the cruelties of childhood come to unsettling life. This is a captivating, important collection from one of the truly brilliant short-story writers of the twentieth century (Otto Penzler).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53480225603857,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780802145307.jpg?v=1777544204","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/books-eleven-by-patricia-highsmith","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}