Eleven -

Patricia Highsmith

Virago

2014

186 páginas

6h 12m

ISBN-13: 9780349004730

From the eerily outlandish to the dark and brutal, Eleven presents a gallery of bizarre characters, each driven by strange unspoken urges, whose cumulative effect is at least as unsettling as any of Highsmith's previous novels. Unsuspecting victims are devoured by their own obsessions in this perfectly chilling collection of short stories. A man becomes devoted to his pet snails, with fatal results.

A young nanny turns arsonist in a bid to become heroine of the hour. A boy finally stands up to his mother, with knife in hand. Highsmith weaves a world claustrophobic in its intensity, disturbing in its mundanity, as she probes the dark corners of the human psyche.

Eleven is a collection of masterpieces of Highsmith's particular art, full of compulsion, foreboding and cruel pleasures.

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Contos de suspense

Os contos deste livro mantêm o leitor preso em um fio de suspense. Thrillers psicológicos, alguns têm um quê de terror. Uma leitura muito envolvente e impactante. Adorei!