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

Schenkar, Joan

ISBN 10: 0312303750 / ISBN 13: 9780312303754

Verlag: St Martins Press, 2009

First edition. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Good DJ with some edge wear and tears. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9999-999103688055

Inhaltsangabe:

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

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

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life...
Verlag: St Martins Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag
Auflage: 1. Auflage