The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life And Serious Art Of Patricia Highsmith
Author: Joan Schenkar
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: $34.95 AUD
: 9780312363819
: St. Martin's Press
: Picador USA
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: 0.694
: 01 March 2011
: 235mm X 156mm X 31mm
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: 01 September 2021
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: Joan Schenkar
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: Paperback
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: English
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: includes two 8 page black & white photo inserts
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Description
Patricia Highsmith, one of the greatest writers of 20th Century American fiction, had a life as darkly compelling as that of her favourite "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.
