Patricia Highsmith's Diaries and Notebooks (Paperback)

Patricia Highsmith

ISBN 10: 1324092947 / ISBN 13: 9781324092940

Published by W W Norton & Co Ltd, London, 2023

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Paperback. Before Alfred Hitchcock adapted her debut novel, Strangers on a Train, for the big screen; before her suave and sociopathic Thomas Ripley snaked his way into the canon of psychological suspense; and before The Price of Salt became a cult classic of romantic obsession, who was Patricia Highsmith?Focused on her formative years in Manhattan, this condensed edition of Highsmiths monumental Diaries and Notebooks reveals Pat at her most passionate and florescent. Beginning in 1941 at Barnard College and encompassing the Texas natives adventurous twenties,?The New York Years intertwines scenes from her dizzying social liferife with sleepless nights barhopping in the queer underground Greenwich Village scene, always juggling too many loverswith an intimate self-portrait of a young artist who by day dispassionately wrote comics for a paycheck. Amid all the hangovers and the breakups, she read voraciously and honed her craft with verve. Laid bare in this perennial readers edition are the bold, hilarious, romantic, tragic, and maddeningly contradictory observations of one of our greatest modernist writers (Gore Vidal). Essential for understanding Patricia Highsmiths transgressive life and prophetic work, this volume is also one of the most observant and ecstatic accounts . . . about being young and alive in New York City (Dwight Garner,New York Times). Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Patricia Highsmith's Diaries and Notebooks (Paperback)
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Ltd, London
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1324092947
• ISBN 13: 9781324092940
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Essential for understanding Patricia Highsmith’s transgressive life and prophetic work, this volume is also “one of the most observant and ecstatic accounts . . . about being young and alive in New York City” (Dwight Garner,―New York Times).

Before Alfred Hitchcock adapted her debut novel, Strangers on a Train, for the big screen; before her suave and sociopathic Thomas Ripley snaked his way into the canon of psychological suspense; and before The Price of Salt became a cult classic of romantic obsession, who was Patricia Highsmith?

Focused on her formative years in Manhattan, this condensed edition of Highsmith’s monumental Diaries and Notebooks reveals “Pat” at her most passionate and florescent. Beginning in 1941 at Barnard College and encompassing the Texas native’s adventurous twenties,?The New York Years intertwines scenes from her dizzying social life―rife with sleepless nights barhopping in the queer underground Greenwich Village scene, always juggling too many lovers―with an intimate self-portrait of a young artist who by day dispassionately wrote comics for a paycheck. Amid all the hangovers and the breakups, she read voraciously and honed her craft with verve. Laid bare in this perennial reader’s edition are the bold, hilarious, romantic, tragic, and maddeningly contradictory observations of one of “our greatest modernist writers” (Gore Vidal).

About the Authors

Patricia Highsmith (1921–1995) was the author of more than twenty novels, including Strangers on a Train, The Price of Salt and The Talented Mr. Ripley, as well as numerous short stories.

Anna von Planta has been Highsmith’s primary editor since the 1980s.

Joan Schenkar, the author of the highly acclaimed biography The Talented Miss Highsmith, lives in Paris and Greenwich Village.