Joan Schenkar

The Talented Miss Highsmith (eBook, ePUB)

The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt is now a major motion picture (Carol) starring Cate Blanchett and Mia Wasikowska, directed by Todd Hayes

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

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 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: St. Martin's Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 704
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781429961011
• Artikelnr.: 39949059

Autorenporträt

Joan Schenkar