People Who Knock on the Door

by Patricia Highsmith

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"Highsmith''s novels are peerlessly disturbing...bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night." —The New Yorker With the savage humor of Evelyn Waugh and the macabre sensibility of Edgar Allan Poe, Patricia Highsmith brought... Read more
"Highsmith''s novels are peerlessly disturbing...bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night." —The New Yorker

With the savage humor of Evelyn Waugh and the macabre sensibility of Edgar Allan Poe, Patricia Highsmith brought a distinct twentieth-century acuteness to her prolific body of fiction. In her more than twenty novels, psychopaths lie in wait amid the milieu of the mundane, in the neighbor clipping the hedges or the spouse asleep next to you at night. Now, Norton continues the revival of this noir genius with another of her lost masterpieces: a later work from 1983, People Who Knock on the Door, is a tale about blind faith and the slippery notion of justice that lies beneath the peculiarly American veneer of righteousness. This novel, out of print for years, again attests to Highsmith''s reputation as "the poet of apprehension" (Graham Greene).

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Publication date November 17, 2001
Languageeng
ISBN9780393344707
Patricia Highsmith (Jan 19, 1921 – Feb 4, 1995) was an American novelist and short story writer widely known for her psychological thrillers. She wrote 22 novels and numerous short stories throughou...

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