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A fictional and complex portrait of bestselling author Patricia
Highsmith caught up in the longing that would inspire her queer
classic, The Price of Salt Flung Out of Space is both a love letter
to the essential lesbian novel, The Price of Salt, and an
examination of its notorious author, Patricia Highsmith. Veteran
comics creators Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer have teamed up to
tell this story through Highsmith's eyes-reimagining the events
that inspired her to write the story that would become a
foundational piece of queer literature. Flung Out of Space opens
with Pat begrudgingly writing low-brow comics. A drinker, a smoker,
and a hater of life, Pat knows she can do better. Her brain churns
with images of the great novel she could and should be writing-what
will eventually be Strangers on a Train- which would later be
adapted into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. At the
same time, Pat, a lesbian consumed with self-loathing, is in and
out of conversion therapy, leaving a trail of sexual conquests and
broken hearts in her wake. However, one of those very affairs and a
chance encounter in a department store give Pat the idea for her
soon-to-be beloved tale of homosexual love that was the first of
its kind-it gave the lesbian protagonists a happy ending. This is
not just the story behind a classic queer book, but of a queer
artist who was deeply flawed. It's a comic about what it was like
to write comics in the 1950s, but also about what it means to be a
writer at any time in history, struggling to find your voice.
Author Grace Ellis contextualizes Patricia Highsmith as both an
unintentional queer icon and a figure whose problematic views and
noted anti-Semitism have cemented her controversial legacy.
Highsmith's life imitated her art with results as devastating as
the plot twists that brought her fame and fortune.
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.
By the bestselling author of The Talented Mr Ripley, Carol and
Strangers on a Train 'The setting is Venice, the characterisation
brilliant, the style spare and superb' Daily Mail The honeymoon is
over; the bride dead by her own hand. Ray Garrett, the grieving
husband, convinces the police in Rome of his innocence, but not his
father-in-law, Ed Coleman, who shoots him at point-blank range and
leaves him for dead. Ray survives and follows Coleman to Venice,
where the two fall into an eerie game of cat-and-mouse - Coleman
obsessed with vengeance and Ray determined to save his reputation,
and himself. Each is at once the hunter and the hunted in a tense
duel that, as each manages to walk away, draws them nearer to
death.
By the bestselling author of The Talented Mr Ripley, Carol and
Strangers on a Train 'Highsmith's novels are peerlessly disturbing
. . . bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night'
New Yorker Sydney Bartleby has killed his wife. At least, he has
thought about it, compulsively, repeatedly, plotting schemes,
designing escapes, forging alibis. Of course he has; he's a
thriller writer. He even knows how to dispose of her body. But when
Alicia takes a long, unannounced holiday, Sydney descends into the
treacherous world of his own fantasy. A masterpiece of noir fantasy
in which Highsmith revels in eliciting the unsettling psychological
forces that lurk beneath the surface of everyday life.
Rife with overtones of Dostoyevsky, The Glass Cell, first published
forty years ago, combines a quintessential Highsmith mystery with a
penetrating critique of the psychological devastation wrought by
the prison system. Falsely convicted of fraud, the easygoing but
naive Philip Carter is sentenced to six lonely, drug-ravaged years
in prison. Upon his release, Carter is a more suspicious and
violent man. For those around him, earning back his trust can mean
the difference between life and death. The Glass Cell's bleak and
compelling portrait of daily prison life and the consequences for
those who live it is, sadly, as relevant today as it was when the
book was first published in 1964."
Born a scant three months after her uncle Oscar's notorious arrest,
raised in the shadow of the greatest scandal of the turn of the
twentieth century, Dolly Wilde attracted people of taste and talent
wherever she went. Brilliantly witty, charged with charm, a "born
writer," she drenched her prodigious talents in liquids, burnt up
her opportunities in flamboyant affairs, and died as she
lived--repeating her uncle's history of excess, collapse, and ruin.
In this biography, Joan Schenkar has created both a captivating
portrait of Dolly and a cultural history of Natalie Clifford
Barney's remarkable Parisian salon--frequented by Janet Flanner,
Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes--in which she shone so brightly.
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