Patricia Highsmith 
Patricia Highsmith’s Diaries and Notebooks: The New York Years, 1941-1950 [EPUB ebook] 

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Essential for understanding Patricia Highsmith’s transgressive life and prophetic work, this volume is also “one of the most observant and ecstatic accounts . . . about being young and alive in New York City” (Dwight Garner, —New York Times).

Before Alfred Hitchcock adapted her debut novel,
Strangers on a Train, for the big screen; before her suave and sociopathic Thomas Ripley snaked his way into the canon of psychological suspense; and before
The Price of Salt became a cult classic of romantic obsession, who was Patricia Highsmith?
Focused on her formative years in Manhattan, this condensed edition of Highsmith’s monumental
Diaries and Notebooks reveals “Pat” at her most passionate and florescent. Beginning in 1941 at Barnard College and encompassing the Texas native’s adventurous twenties, ?
The New York Years 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).

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About the author

Joan Schenkar, the author of the highly acclaimed biography The Talented Miss Highsmith, lives in Paris and Greenwich Village.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 672 ● ISBN 9781324092957 ● File size 4.0 MB ● Editor Anna von Planta ● Publisher Liveright ● Country US ● Published 2023 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 8526674 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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