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Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes
| Author: | Patricia Highsmith |
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Virago Press, 2014 Grove Press, 2011 Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989 Methuen, 1988 Bloomsbury Publishing, 1987 |
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| Book Type: | Collection |
| Genre: | Horror |
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Synopsis
In this eerily up-to-date collection, Highsmith's incisive prose chronicles a world gone slightly mad, its catastrophes precipitated by human folly and excess. From the White House under siege by the homeless to a 190-year-old woman perpetually near death and dimly glowing, each tale unfolds the illogical extremes of humanity in the late twentieth century. Highsmith transmogrifies the face of daily existence to lay bare its manifold dark motives. These stories leave us haunted with "afterimages that will tremble" but "stay in our minds" (The New Yorker).
Table of Contents:
- The Mysterious Cemetery - (1987) - short story
- Moby Dick II; or The Missile Whale - (1987) - short story
- Operation Balsam; or Touch-Me-Not - (1987) - short story
- Nabuti: Warm Welcome to a UN Committee - (1987) - short story
- Sweet Freedom! And a Picnic on the White House Lawn - (1987) - short story
- Trouble at the Jade Towers - (1987) - novelette
- Rent-a-Womb vs. the Mighty Right - (1987) - short story
- No End in Sight - (1987) - short story
- Sixtus VI, Pope of the Red Slipper - (1987) - novelette
- President Buck Jones Rallies and Waves the Flag - (1987) - novelette
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