{"product_id":"patricia-highsmiths-diaries-and-notebooks-the-new-york-years-1941-1950-9781324092940","title":"Patricia Highsmith's Diaries and Notebooks: The New York Years, 1941-1950","description":"Before Alfred Hitchcock adapted her debut novel, \u003cem\u003eStrangers on a Train\u003c\/em\u003e, for the big screen; before her suave and sociopathic Thomas Ripley snaked his way into the canon of psychological suspense; and before \u003cem\u003eThe Price of Salt\u003c\/em\u003e became a cult classic of romantic obsession, who was Patricia Highsmith?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Focused on her formative years in Manhattan, this condensed edition of Highsmith's monumental \u003cem\u003eDiaries and Notebooks\u003c\/em\u003e reveals \"Pat\" at her most passionate and florescent. Beginning in 1941 at Barnard College and encompassing the Texas native's adventurous twenties, ?\u003cem\u003eThe New York Years\u003c\/em\u003e intertwines scenes from her dizzying social life--rife with sleepless nights barhopping in the queer underground Greenwich Village scene, always juggling too many lovers--with an intimate self-portrait of a young artist who by day dispassionately wrote comics for a paycheck. Amid all the hangovers and the breakups, she read voraciously and honed her craft with verve. Laid bare in this perennial reader's edition are the bold, hilarious, romantic, tragic, and maddeningly contradictory observations of one of \"our greatest modernist writers\" (Gore Vidal).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liveright Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/10\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781324092940\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 672","brand":"Patricia Highsmith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42531019915445,"sku":"9781324092940","price":18.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_8041dd28-e2ea-4b8a-9f0e-22d9bdccb4ac.jpg?v=1669735197","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/patricia-highsmiths-diaries-and-notebooks-the-new-york-years-1941-1950-9781324092940","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}