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Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks
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-Joan Schenkar, author of The Talented Miss Highsmith "Is Patricia Highsmith a queer icon, a trans icon, or just a brilliant and lucky bitch, a bitch's bitch? I don't think I've ever met a person as troubling or intelligent, frustrating and frustrated, and triumphantly alone. She's master diarist as much as novelist. Her Diaries and Notebooks are a portrait of a time, a long passage from the forties to the nineties, and you've never traveled on this perspective before. Get on, get off, spend months and days. You can spend years."
-Eileen Myles Praise for Patricia Highsmith "[Highsmith's] characters are irrational, and they leap to life in their very lack of reason; suddenly we realize how unbelievably rational most fictional characters are. . . . Highsmith is the poet of apprehension rather than fear."
-Graham Greene "Highsmith's brilliance as a novelist [is] her way of making us experience life as a tightening noose. . . . She was also our great chronicler, at a time of peak social conformity, of American secret selves."
-Megan O'Grady, New York Times "The English-speaking world might casually slot her as a writer of crime fiction, but Europeans honored her as a psychological novelist, part of an existentialist tradition represented by her own favorite writers, in particular Dostoevsky, Conrad, Kafka, Gide, and Camus. . . . The Talented Mr. Ripley and its companions should at least rank among the most perversely entertaining novels of our time."
-Michael Dirda, New York Review of Books
Product details
Number of Pages:
1024
Release Date:
2021-11-16
Publication Date:
2021-11-16
Publisher:
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
1324090995
ISBN13:
9781324090991
Weight:
1372 g
Height:
169 cm
Width:
243 cm
Thickness:
55 cm
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