Slowly, Slowly in the Wind [Paperback]

Highsmith neatly dismantles the American suburban idyll, subverting the clich?s of domestic blissnice neighbors, a child's comforting glass of milk, and the dream of growing radisheswith macabre cruelty.For eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there's no one like Patricia Highsmith.Highsmith is crime fiction's most lethal existentialist. Highsmith's writing is wicked . . . it puts a spell on you, after which you feel altered, even tainted.