The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith
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| Management number | 237297148 | Release Date | 2026/07/10 | List Price | US$8.57 | Model Number | 237297148 | ||
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Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt is now a major motion picture (Carol) starring Cate Blanchett and Mia Wasikowska, directed by Todd HayesA 2010 New York Times Notable BookA 2010 Lambda Literary Award WinnerA 2009 Edgar Award NomineeA 2009 Agatha Award NomineeA Publishers Weekly Pick of the WeekPatricia 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. Read more
| ISBN10 | 0312363818 |
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| ISBN13 | 978-0312363819 |
| Edition | First Edition |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Picador |
| Dimensions | 6.2 x 1.8 x 9.22 inches |
| Item Weight | 2.3 pounds |
| Print length | 704 pages |
| Publication date | January 4, 2011 |
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