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People Who Knock on the Door (1983) is a novel by Patricia Highsmith. It was the nineteenth of her 22 novels.
- Patricia Highsmith
- 1983
1 gen 1983 · In a pitiless story of prying suburban self-righteousness, Patricia Highsmith introduces the Alderman family as they descend into moral crisis. When small-town insurance salesman Richard Alderman becomes a born-again Christian, his once tight-knit family quickly begins to rip apart at the seams.
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Now, Norton continues the revival of this noir genius with another of her lost masterpieces: a later work from 1983, People Who Knock on the Door, is a tale about blind faith and the...
- Patricia Highsmith
- W. W. Norton & Company, 2001
- reprint
- People Who Knock on the Door
Product Details. "Highsmith's novels are peerlessly disturbing...bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night." —The New Yorker. With the savage humor of Evelyn Waugh and the macabre sensibility of Edgar Allan Poe, Patricia Highsmith brought a distinct twentieth-century acuteness to her prolific body of fiction.
17 nov 2001 · People Who Knock on Doors is a fascinating depiction of small town American life and covers topics like abortion, the moral majority and The Religious Right’s need to control others’ personal narratives.
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- 1983
- Patricia Highsmith
- Patricia Highsmith
1 gen 1983 · People Who Knock on Doors is a fascinating depiction of small town American life and covers topics like abortion, the moral majority and The Religious Right’s need to control others’ personal narratives.
- Patricia Highsmith
Highsmith achieves the effect of the occult without any resources to supernatural machinery' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 'No one has created psychological suspense more densely and deliciously...
