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The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith (Hardback)
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Short Description for The Talented Miss HighsmithPatricia 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. This biography paints a 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.
Full description- Publisher: St Martin's Press
- Published: 08 January 2010
- Format: Hardback 656 pages
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- Categories: Biography: Literary
- ISBN 13: 9780312303754 ISBN 10: 0312303750
- Sales rank: 202,318
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Full description for The Talented Miss Highsmith
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.
