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

Schenkar, Joan

 
9780312303754: The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith
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ISBN 10 : 0312303750 ISBN 13 : 9780312303754
Editeur : St Martin's Press, 2009

Synopsis

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.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Revue de presse

Joan Schenkar is the first writer to grapple with Patricia Highsmith on every level of her being, from her bizarre personal life to her incredibly prolific writing life. It s hard to avoid superlatives when describing Schenkar s biography, but there doesn t seem to be any other way to go about it. - Deirdre Bair, author of Samuel Beckett, winner of the National Book Award. --Deirdre Bair

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Éditeur
St Martin's Press
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0312303750
ISBN 13 
9780312303754
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
656
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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Editeur : Picador Paper, 2011
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