The talented Miss Highsmith

the secret life and serious art of Patricia Highsmith

1st ed.

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Author

Joan Schenkar

Publication

2009 - St. Martin's Press, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

176,000 words, Guess

Page Count

704 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

Internet Archivetalentedmisshigh0000sche
ISBN-100312303750
ISBN-139780312303754
Goodreads6424007
LibraryThing9043993

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Library of Congress Control Number2009018363
OCLC Control Number317928630
Better World Books9780312303754
Open LibraryOL23223905M

Classifications

DDC813/.54
DDCB
LCCPS3558.I366 Z87 2009

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LCCPS3558.I366Z87 2009

Description

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.

Description

Reveals the dark private life of the successful twentieth-century writer, chronicling her Texas origins through her self-exile in Europe and offering insight into the influence of Tom Ripley and the Hitchcock film inspired by her first novel.