by Patricia Highsmith · Editorial Anagrama S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433930651
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«Sirenas en el campo de golf» is the short story collection by Patricia Highsmith, published by Editorial Anagrama in paperback (230 pages, in Spanish).
The collection brings together eleven stories that oscillate between dark irony and bittersweet tenderness. In the title story, an economist who has saved the life of the President of the United States begins to have visions of mermaids frolicking on a golf course as his self-control crumbles. Other everyday characters, such as a painter who witnesses a sudden death, are drawn into unsettling situations that show the thin line between the normal and the disturbing.
The volume belongs to the Panorama de narrativas collection, where it occupies number 65. Translation by Jordi Beltrán.
Recommended for readers of short stories and followers of psychological narrative and mystery fiction by Patricia Highsmith.
Patricia Highsmith was an American novelist and short story writer widely known for her psychological thrillers, including her series of five novels featuring the character Tom Ripley. She wrote 22 novels and numerous short stories in a career spanning nearly five decades, and her work has led to more than two dozen film adaptations. Her writing was influenced by existentialist literature and questioned notions of identity and popular morality. She was dubbed "the poet of apprehension" by novelist Graham Greene.
