Talented Miss Highsmith - Couverture souple

Schenkar, Joan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0312363818 ISBN 13 : 9780312363819

Editeur : Picador Paper, 2011

Synopsis

Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt is now a major motion picture (Carol) starring Cate Blanchett and Mia Wasikowska, directed by Todd Hayes

A 2010 New York Times Notable Book
A 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Joan Schenkar (1942-2021) was a playwright of experimental works and the renowned biographer of Patricia Highsmith, the controversial author of The Talented Mr. Ripley, and Dolly Wilde, Oscar Wilde's niece. Her books include the Lambda Literary Award Winner, The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith, Truly Wilde: The Unsettling Story of Dolly Wilde, and a collection of plays, Signs of Life: 6 Comedies of Menace.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Picador Paper
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0312363818
• ISBN 13: 9780312363819
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 720
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