The Crime Writer

'Brilliant' Paula Hawkins In 1964, the eccentric American novelist Patricia Highsmith is hiding out in a cottage in Suffolk, to concentrate on her writing and escape her fans. She has another motive too - a secret romance with a married lover based in London. Unfortunately it soon becomes clear that all her demons have come with her. Prowlers, sexual obsessives, frauds, imposters, suicides and murderers: the tropes of her fictions clamour for her attention, rudely intruding on her peaceful Suffolk retreat. After the arrival of Ginny, an enigmatic young journalist bent on interviewing her, events take a catastrophic turn. Except, as always in Highsmith's troubled life, matters are not quite as they first appear . . . Masterfully recreating Highsmith's much exercised fantasies of murder and madness, Jill Dawson probes the darkest reaches of the imagination in this novel - at once a brilliant portrait of a writer and an atmospheric, emotionally charged, riveting tale.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jill Dawson, Dawson Jill
• Editore: Sceptre
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 28.02.2017
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi
• EAN: 9781444731132
• ISBN: 978-1-4447-3113-2
• Numero di pagine: 247
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 12.8 x 19.7 x 1.7 cm
• Categorie: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, biography, Suffolk, Patricia Highsmith, Orange Prize, Psychological thriller, Murder Mystery, 1964, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Crime Fiction, crime writing, The Talented Mr Ripley, The Tell-tale Heart, Jill Dawson, Fred and Edie, Lucky Bunny, novel about Patricia Highsmith