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

Schenkar, Joan

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ISBN 10: 0312303750 ISBN 13: 9780312303754

Casa editrice: St Martins Pr, 2009

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione:

Joan Schenkar is the first writer to grapple with Patricia Highsmith on every level of her being, from her bizarre personal life to her incredibly prolific writing life. It s hard to avoid superlatives when describing Schenkar s biography, but there doesn t seem to be any other way to go about it. - Deirdre Bair, author of Samuel Beckett, winner of the National Book Award. --Deirdre Bair

L'autore:

JOAN SCHENKAR is the author of Truly Wilde: The Unsettling Story of Dolly Wilde as well as a collection of plays, Signs of Life: 6 Comedies of Menace. She lives in Paris and Greenwich Village

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• Editore: St Martins Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0312303750
• ISBN 13: 9780312303754
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 684