The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith
Language: English
Published by St Martin's Press, 2009
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Patricia Highsmith, one of the great writers of 20th Century American fiction, had a life as darkly compelling as that of her favorite 'hero-criminal', talented Tom Ripley. In this revolutionary biography, Joan Schenkar paints a riveting portrait, from Highsmith's birth in Texas to Hitchcock's filming of her first novel, "Strangers On a Train", to her long, strange, self-exile in Europe. We see her as a secret writer for the comics, a brilliant creator of disturbing fictions, and erotic predator with dozens of women (and a few good men) on her love list. "The Talented Miss Highsmith" is the first literary biography with access to Highsmith's whole story: her closest friends, her oeuvre, her archives. It's a compulsive page-turner unlike any other, a book worthy of Highsmith herself.
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- Title
- The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith
- Author
- Joan Schenkar
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press
- Publication year
- 2009
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0312303750
- ISBN 13
- 9780312303754
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