The Talented Miss Highsmith - The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Picador USA
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2011
First published:	2011
Authors:	Joan Schenkar
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	684
ISBN-13:	978-0-312-36381-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Literary Books > Biography > Literary
LSN:	0-312-36381-8
Barcode:	9780312363819

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