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The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith

✍ Scribed by Schenkar, Joan

Book ID: 107820741
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Weight: 2 MB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780312303754

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✦ Synopsis

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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