Dave Morris's Reviews > Deep Water

Highsmith writing as if she's paid by the word. I never made it out of the opening scene, a party that's described with every tedious detail -- where somebody is sitting, how somebody's hair falls, exact descriptions of cigarette lighting. It was neither interesting nor remotely believable. I get the impression Highsmith was just writing hoping a brilliant idea would come, but the concept wasn't even strong enough for a short story.