This volume spans almost fifty years of Highsmith\'s career and establishes her as a permanent member of our American literary canon, as attested by recent publication of two of these Stories in The New Yorker and Harper\'s .
The Stories assembled in Nothing That Meets the Eye , written between 1938 and 1982, are vintage Highsmith: a gigolo-like psychopath preys on unfulfilled career women; a lonely spinster\'s fragile hold on reality is tethered to the bottle; an.
This volume spans almost fifty years of Highsmith\'s career and establishes her as a permanent member of our American literary canon, as attested by recent publication of two of these Stories in The New Yorker and Harper\'s