Unsuspecting victims are devoured by their own obsessions in this perfectly chilling collection. 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.
- ISBN10 0747575002
- ISBN13 9780747575009
- Publish Date 21 May 2007 (first published 6 July 1970)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Edition UK open market ed
- Format Paperback
- Pages 192
- Language English
- URL http://bloomsbury.com/Trade/