People Who Knock on the Door: A Virago Modern Classic (Virago Modern Classics) - Softcover

Highsmith, Patricia

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9780349004976: People Who Knock on the Door: A Virago Modern Classic (Virago Modern Classics)

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ISBN 10: 0349004978 ISBN 13: 9780349004976

Publisher: Virago, 2016

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People Who Knock on the Door, is a tale about blind faith and the slippery notion of justice that lies beneath the peculiarly American veneer of righteousness.

'A border zone of the macabre, the disturbing, the not quite accidental . . . Highsmith achieves the effect of the occult without any resources to supernatural machinery' New York Times Book Review

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. He and his youngest son, Robbie, embrace their newfound faith, while his elder son Arthur rejects it. Caught in the middle of the ensuing web of lies, his wife, Lois, tries to keep the family together, but when the church elders start to interfere in Arthur's love life, events spiral toward violence. In this masterful late work, Highsmith weaves a powerful tale about blind faith and the peculiar ideas of justice that lie underneath the veneer of respectability.

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Venomously accurate - Sunday Times A border zone of the macabre, the disturbing, the not quite accidental . . . Highsmith achieves the effect of the occult without any resources to supernatural machinery - New York Times Book Review A writer who has created a world of her own . . . Patricia Highsmith is the poet of apprehension - Graham Greene No one has created psychological suspense more densely and deliciously satisfying - Vogue

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People Who Knock on the Door, is a tale about blind faith and the slippery notion of justice that lies beneath the peculiarly American veneer of righteousness.

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