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| Mermaids on the Golf Course | 
 enlarge | Author: Patricia Highsmith
Publisher: Penzler Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 3652521
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Penzler Books ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 233
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 1
ISBN: 0892963522
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780892963522
ASIN: 0892963522
Publication Date: October 1988
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The great revival of interest in Patricia Highsmith continues with this work that reveals the chilling reality behind the idyllic facade of American suburban life. The stories collected in Mermaids on the Golf Course are among Highsmith's most mature, psychologically penetrating works. As in the title story, in which a man's brush with death endows his everyday desires with tragic consequences, the warm familiarities of middle-class life become the eerie setting for Highsmith's chilling portrayals of violence, secrecy, and madness.
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unremarkable stories by the remarkable Highsmith... January 11, 2006
'Mermaids on the Golf Course' is a disparate collection of stories which really lack the notable elements found in Patricia Highsmith's novels, ... particularly suspense and psychological deconstruction of central characters. These short stories are mostly mild character studies of lonely people. However the key short story, entitled 'Mermaids on the Golf Course', is rather clever and bizarre. Not a classic, but certainly memorable.
Bottom line: a collection of uninspired stories. Not recommended.
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