The Crime writer
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Word Count
61,750 words, Guess
Page Count
247 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivecrimewriter0000daws
- ISBN-101444731130
- ISBN-139781444731132
- OCLC Control Number950638671
- Better World Books9781444731132
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL28241483M
Classifications
- DDC823.92
- LCCPR6054.A923 C75 2017
- LCCPR6054.A923
Description
In 1964, the eccentric American novelist Patricia Highsmith is hiding out in a cottage in Suffolk, to concentrate on her writing and escape her fans. She has another motive too - a secret romance with a married lover based in London. Unfortunately it soon becomes clear that all her demons have come with her. Prowlers, sexual obsessives, frauds, imposters, suicides and murderers: the tropes of her fictions clamour for her attention, rudely intruding on her peaceful Suffolk retreat. After the arrival of Ginny, an enigmatic young journalist bent on interviewing her, events take a catastrophic turn. Except, as always in Highsmith's troubled life, matters are not quite as they first appear ...Masterfully recreating Highsmith's much exercised fantasies of murder and madness, Jill Dawson probes the darkest reaches of the imagination in this novel - at once a brilliant portrait of a writer and an atmospheric, emotionally charged, riveting tale.
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