The Talented Miss Highsmith, the Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith
Language: English
Published by Picador / St. Martin's Press, 2011
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- Softcover
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684pp, octavo, cover wear, remainder dot bottom page edges, tight binding, clean throughout.
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- Title
- The Talented Miss Highsmith, the Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith
- Author
- SCHENKAR, Joan
- Publisher
- Picador / St. Martin's Press
- Publication year
- 2011
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- PAPERBACK
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0312363818
- ISBN 13
- 9780312363819
- Edition
- 1st edition thus.
- Seller catalogs
- MYSTERY
Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt is now a major motion picture (Carol) starring Cate Blanchett and Mia Wasikowska, directed by Todd Hayes
A 2010 New York Times Notable Book
A 2010 Lambda Literary Award Winner
A 2009 Edgar Award Nominee
A 2009 Agatha Award Nominee
A Publishers Weekly Pick of the Week
Patricia Highsmith, one of the great writers of twentieth-century American fiction, had a life as darkly compelling as that of her favorite "hero-criminal," the talented Tom Ripley. Joan Schenkar maps out this richly bizarre life from her 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 an 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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