The Talented Miss Highsmith
The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith
Joan Schenkar
Patricia Highsmith, one of the great writers of twentieth-century American fiction, had a life as darkly compelling as that of her favorite ‘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 Highsmithis 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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Details
| ISBN | 9780312363819 |
| Genre | Award Winner; Autobiography/Biography |
| Copyright Date | 2009 |
| Publication Date | 04-Jan-11 |
| Publisher | Picador |
| Format | Trade Paperback |
| No. of Pages | 704 |
| Notes | A 2010 New York Times Notable Book
A 2010 Lambda Literary Award Winner A 2009 Edgar Award Nominee A 2009 Agatha Award Nominee A Publishers Weekly Pick of the Week |
| Rating | Great |
| Paper Type | Electronic Format Available |
| Subject | Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts; Biography & Autobiography / General; Biography & Autobiography / Literary |
| BookID | 12887 |