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The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith Hardcover - 2009

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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 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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  • Title The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith
  • Author Schenkar, Joan
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 704
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher St. Martin's Press, New York
  • Date 2009-12
  • ISBN 9780312303754

About the author

JOAN SCHENKAR is the author of "Truly Wilde: The Unsettling Story of Dolly Wilde "as well as a collection of plays, "Signs of Life: 6 Comedies of Menace. "She lives in Paris and Greenwich Village
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