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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 favourite hero-criminal, the talented Tom Ripley. Joan Schenkar maps out this richly bizarre life from her 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 an 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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This is a biography of clarity and style. A model of its kind. . . . Schenkar s writing is witty, sharp and light-handed. The New York Times Book Review --New York Times Book review
Both dazzling and definitive . . . A volume as original as its contemptible, miserable, irresistible subject. Los Angeles Times --Los Angelas Times
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Both dazzling and definitive . . . A volume as original as its contemptible, miserable, irresistible subject. Los Angeles Times --Los Angelas Times
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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