The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith
Author(s): Joan Schenkar
Lesbian & Bi Biography / Memoir
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.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : St. Martin's Press
- : Picador USA
- : 0.694
- : March 2011
- : 235mm X 156mm X 31mm
- : September 2021
- : books
Special Fields
- : includes two 8 page black & white photo inserts
- : 704
- : 813.54
- : English
- : 1
- : Paperback
- : Joan Schenkar