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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 revolution ary 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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The Talented Miss Highsmith, Joan Schenkar
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- Année de publication
- 2009
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- Titre
- The Talented Miss Highsmith
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Joan Schenkar
- Éditeur
- St. Martin's Press
- Publié
- 2009
- Format
- rigide
- Pages
- 704
- ISBN10
- 0312303750
- ISBN13
- 9780312303754
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Nonfiction, Thème historique, Histoires vraies, Biographies, Histoire, Autobiographies et mémoires, LGBTQ+
- Évaluation
- 3,65 sur 5
- Description
- 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 revolution ary 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.