The Talented Miss Highsmith. The Secret Life And Serious Art Of Patricia Highsmith

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: Good
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 2009
Edition: First Edition

Description: 684 pages. Ex-Library. (only one small stamp on inside page). Book and Jacket are both in Good condition. There is some light shelf and reading wear, but still a presentable copy.

Publishers 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 revolutionary biography, Joan Schenkar paints a riveting portrait, from Highsmiths birth in Texas to Hitchcocks 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 Highsmiths whole story: her closest friends, her oeuvre, her archives. Its a compulsive page-turner unlike any other, a book worthy of Highsmith herself.

ISBN: 9780312303754