The Talented Miss Highsmith The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith
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Erscheinungsdatum
18.01.2010
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St. Martin's PressSeitenzahl
732 (Printausgabe)
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Englisch
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9781429961011
A biography of the novelist who created Tom Ripley that is "both dazzling and definitive... as original as its contemptible, miserable, irresistible subject" (
Los Angeles Times).
A New York Times Notable Book * A Lambda Literary Award Winner * An Edgar Award Nominee * An 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 famed "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.
"Schenkar's writing is witty, sharp and light-handed, a considerable achievement given the immense detail." -Jeanette Winterson,
The New York Times Book Review
"This is no ordinary biography...
The Talented Miss Highsmith breaks much ground in connecting Highsmith's diabolical tales with the real women who prompted her strongest passions." -Janet Maslin,
The New York Times
"Captures the writer in all her sullen, sinister, ambivalent glory." -Tina Jordan,
Entertainment Weekly
Los Angeles Times).
A New York Times Notable Book * A Lambda Literary Award Winner * An Edgar Award Nominee * An 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 famed "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.
"Schenkar's writing is witty, sharp and light-handed, a considerable achievement given the immense detail." -Jeanette Winterson,
The New York Times Book Review
"This is no ordinary biography...
The Talented Miss Highsmith breaks much ground in connecting Highsmith's diabolical tales with the real women who prompted her strongest passions." -Janet Maslin,
The New York Times
"Captures the writer in all her sullen, sinister, ambivalent glory." -Tina Jordan,
Entertainment Weekly
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