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Patricia Highsmith, Paul Ingendaay (Hg.) | The Black House | English Title: The Black House<br>368 Pages

Hardcover
368 Pages
Published in May 2005

ISBN 978-3-257-06426-1
€ (D) 19.90 / (A) 20.50
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Patricia Highsmith
The Black House

Published by Diogenes as Keiner von uns

From a fishing trawler operating off the coast of Massachusetts, a sailor spots something white on the surface of the ocean. A seagull, a beach ball, a bathing cap? The pallid object that the crew eventually heaves on board has full breasts, a slim waist and hips like a mermaid – but this is no mermaid. Eleven stories of people whose very existence is torn apart in the flutter of an eyelid, as if the curtain had finally been raised – whoosh! – revealing a real and dangerous life that pushes them beyond their limits into the deep unknown. They are the stories of young girls, cowards, swindlers, the old and the young – all those who have fallen by the wayside in the struggle against the injustices of daily life.

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»One of the exhilarating effects of reading Highsmith's stories...is the greatly enlarged sense of her range and energy...in their surehandedness, their breadth and abundance...«Washington Post

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