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Paperback. Pub Date: 2004 Pages: 288 Publisher: WW Norton & Co. Rife with overtones of Dostoyevsky The Glass Cell the first Published forty years ago. Combines a Quintessential Highsmith mystery with a penetrating critique - of the psychological Devastation wrought by the prison system. Falsely convicted of fraud. the easygoing but naive Philip Carter is sentenced to six lonely. drug-ravaged years in prison. Upon his release. Carter is a more suspicious and violent man. For those around him. earning back his trust can mean the difference between life and death. The Glass Cell's bleak and compelling portrait of daily prison life and the consequences for those who live it is. sadly. as relevant today as it was when the book was first published in 1964.
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The book is well made, well told.
There's a certain harsh power here that is compelling.
Patricia Highsmith's novels are peerlessly disturbing...bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night.
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There's a certain harsh power here that is compelling.
Patricia Highsmith's novels are peerlessly disturbing...bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night.
In 1961, Patricia Highsmith received a fan letter from a prison inmate. A correspondence ensued and Highsmith became fascinated with the psychological traumas that incarceration can inflict.
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