The Talented Miss Highsmith : The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith (Bom Estado)

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Titulo: The Talented Miss Highsmith : The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith (Bom Estado)Autor: Joan SchenkarESTADO: BOM ESTADOISBN/EAN: 9780312303754Editor: St. Mar tin's PressAno: 2010Idioma: InglêsEncadernação: N.A.Páginas: 656Coleção: N.A.Nº. da Coleção: N.A.Código de Controlo: 4E Descrição: 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. Show more