doors
the people who knock on the door
with the savage humor of evelyn waugh and the macabre sensibility of edgar allan poe patricia highsmith brought a distinct twentieth century acuteness to her prolific body of fiction . in her more than twenty novels psychopaths lie in wait amid the milieu of the mundane in the neighbor clipping the hedges or the spouse asleep next to you at night . now norton continues the revival of this noir genius with another of her lost masterpieces a later work from 1983 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 . this novel out of print for years again attests to highsmiths reputation as the poet of apprehension graham greene .
richard aldermans decision to become a born again christian insidiously disrupts the lives of his teenage son arthur who rejects the church ; younger son robbie who adopts his fathers views ; and his wife lois hopelessly caught in the middle of the conflict . reprint .