Fabulous, in all senses of that word . . . combining the best features of the suspense genre with the best of existential fictiona thrilled reflection. Paul Theroux Elsie Tyler turns heads wherever she goes. After leaving her hometown upstate for Greenwich Village, the charming young waitress soon finds herself surrounded by admirers, including Jack and Natalia Sutherland, a married couple who invite Elsie into their bohemian inner circle and help her launch a career as a model. Meanwhile, Ralph Linderman, a middle-aged security guard with a dog named God, is nursing his own obsession with Elsie. He sets out to protect her from the bad company she attracts, but his uninvited affections are overbearing, possibly even pathological. When Ralph finds Jack s wallet on a morning stroll through the Village, and returns it, he is entirely unprepared for the complex maze of sexual obsession and disturbing psychological intrigue he is about to be drawn into. Originally published in 1986, Found in the Street is classic Highsmithan engrossing, unsettling thriller that explores the bleakest alleyways of human desire, and a kaleidoscopic portrait of 1980s New York City. Patricia Highsmith, author of Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley, has been called one of the finest crime novelists by the New York Times and is now considered one of the most original voices in twentieth-century American fiction."
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Praise for Patricia Highsmith
[Highsmith's] characters are irrational, and they leap to life in their very lack of reason. . . . Highsmith is the poet of apprehension rather than fear. Graham Greene
For some obscure reason, one of our greatest modernist writers, Patricia Highsmith, has been thought of in her own land as a writer of thrillers. She is both. She is certainly one of the most interesting writers of this dismal century. Gore Vidal
Miss Highsmith's genius is in presenting fantasy's paradox: successes are not what they seem. . . . Where in the traditional fairy tale the heroine turns the toad into a prince, in Miss Highsmith's fables the prince becomes a toadsuccess is nearly always fatal. . . . Combining the best features of the suspense genre with the best of existential fictiona reflectionthe stories are fabulous, in all the senses of that word. Paul Theroux
She writes so fearlessly . . . about human relationships and the human heart. I always have this terrible sense of foreboding . . . you never feel safe. Cate Blanchett
Patricia Highsmith's novels are peerlessly disturbingbad dreams that keep us restless and thrashing for the rest of the night. Terrence Rafferty, "New Yorker"
These days, just about all the exciting work in the murder-for-entertainment business descends not from Arthur Conan Doyle or Hammett but from Highsmith. "Atlantic"
Highsmith, who can change reality to nightmare with one well-turned phrase, is a legendary crime writer. "Cleveland Plain Dealer""
Praise for Patricia Highsmith
[Highsmith's] characters are irrational, and they leap to life in their very lack of reason. . . . Highsmith is the poet of apprehension rather than fear. Graham Greene
For some obscure reason, one of our greatest modernist writers, Patricia Highsmith, has been thought of in her own land as a writer of thrillers. She is both. She is certainly one of the most interesting writers of this dismal century. Gore Vidal
Miss Highsmith's genius is in presenting fantasy's paradox: successes are not what they seem. . . . Where in the traditional fairy tale the heroine turns the toad into a prince, in Miss Highsmith's fables the prince becomes a toadsuccess is nearly always fatal. . . . Combining the best features of the suspense genre with the best of existential fictiona reflectionthe stories are fabulous, in all the senses of that word. Paul Theroux
She writes so fearlessly . . . about human relationships and the human heart. I always have this terrible sense of foreboding . . . you never feel safe. Cate Blanchett
Patricia Highsmith's novels are peerlessly disturbingbad dreams that keep us restless and thrashing for the rest of the night. Terrence Rafferty, New Yorker
These days, just about all the exciting work in the murder-for-entertainment business descends not from Arthur Conan Doyle or Hammett but from Highsmith. Atlantic
Highsmith, who can change reality to nightmare with one well-turned phrase, is a legendary crime writer. Cleveland Plain Dealer"
Found in the Street is a haunting psychological thriller, by the queen of the genre, in which there is only a breath between nightmare and reality.
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