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The Talented Miss Highsmith The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith
Author: Joan Schenkar

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 Trai... more »n, 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.

ISBN-13: 9780312303754
ISBN-10: 0312303750
Publication Date: 12/8/2009
Pages: 704
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Currently 3.5/5 Stars.

3.5 stars, based on 3 ratings

Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
Members Wishing: 6
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Jane H. (kinijane) reviewed The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith on 3/6/2011 + 8 more book reviews

If you are wanting to know all the details about the life of the author of "The Talented Mr. Ripley" and "The Price of Salt," this is the book for you. It's a brillant biography, exhaustively researched.

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