{"product_id":"the-talented-miss-highsmith-the-secret-life-and-serious-art-of-patricia-highsmith-9780312363819","title":"The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatricia Highsmith's \u003ci\u003eThe Price of Salt\u003c\/i\u003e is now a major motion picture\u003ci\u003e (Carol\u003c\/i\u003e) starring Cate Blanchett and Mia Wasikowska, directed by Todd Hayes \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA 2010 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 2010 Lambda Literary Award Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 2009 Edgar Award Nominee\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 2009 Agatha Award Nominee\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e Pick of the Week \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePatricia Highsmith, one of the great writers of twentieth-century American fiction, had a life as darkly compelling as that of her favorite 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, \u003ci\u003eStrangers on a Train, \u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Talented Miss Highsmith\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/04\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780312363819\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 704\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 5.80w x 2.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/23\/2011 pg. 20\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Joan Schenkar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42916842995893,"sku":"9780312363819","price":22.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_18fa5e6e-cdef-4c85-b2c6-cb937d190585.jpg?v=1687272021","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-talented-miss-highsmith-the-secret-life-and-serious-art-of-patricia-highsmith-9780312363819","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}