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

Schenkar, Joan

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ISBN 10: 0312363818 ISBN 13: 9780312363819

Casa editrice: Picador Paper, 2011

Riassunto

A 2010 New York Times Notable BookA 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.

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Recensione:

This is a biography of clarity and style. A model of its kind. . . . Schenkar s writing is witty, sharp and light-handed. The New York Times Book Review --New York Times Book review

Both dazzling and definitive . . . A volume as original as its contemptible, miserable, irresistible subject. Los Angeles Times --Los Angelas Times

L'autore:

JOAN SCHENKAR is the author of Truly Wilde: The Unsettling Story of Dolly Wildeas 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: Picador Paper
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0312363818
• ISBN 13: 9780312363819
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 720