The Talented Miss Highshmith - The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith

Informationen zum Autor Joan Schenkar Klappentext 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.

Product details

• Authors: Joan Schenkar
• Publisher: Picador Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 29.01.2011
• EAN: 9780312363819
• ISBN: 978-0-312-36381-9
• No. of pages: 684
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 234 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Biographien (div.), Highsmith, Patricia