The Talented Miss Highsmith The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith |
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| Author:
| Schenkar, Joan |
| ISBN: | 978-0-312-30375-4 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2009 |
| Publisher: | St. Martin's Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $51.99 |
Book Description:
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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...
More 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.