The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith
by Schenkar, Joan
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0312303750
- ISBN 13
- 9780312303754
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
St. Martin's Press, 2009. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 684pp., a lovely copy with two b/w photograph inserts and a b/w frontispiece of Patricia Highsmith. Black boards with blue titles on the spine in a dust jacket with a b/w portrait of Highsmith. A clean copy with light lightshelfwear, else Near Fine, in a Near Fine dust jacket with shallow edge wear. '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.' ~ Publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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- Bookseller
- Arundel Books of Seattle (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 625149
- Title
- The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith
- Author
- Schenkar, Joan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0312303750
- ISBN 13
- 9780312303754
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2009
- Keywords
- biography, lgbtq studies, women writers, lesbian memoir, , , , ,
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Seattle, Washington
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