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050	0	0	_aPS3558.I366 _bZ87 2009
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100	1		_aSchenkar, Joan
245	1	4	_aThe talented Miss Highsmith _b: the secret life and serious art of Patricia Highsmith _c/ Joan Schenkar
246	3	0	_aSecret life and serious art of Patricia Highsmith
260			_aNew York _b: Picador St. Martin's Press _c, 2011, c2009.
300			_axx, 684 p., [16] p. of plates _b: ill., map _c; 25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [657]-660).
505	0		_aA Note on Biography--How to Begin--A Simple Act of Forgery--La Mamma--Greek Games--Alter Ego--Social Studies--Les Girls--The Real Romance of Objects--The Cake That Was Shaped Like a Coffin--Acknowledgments--Appendix 1 Just the Facts--Appendix 2 Patricia Highsmith's New York--Appendix 3 Charts, Maps, Diagrams, and Plans--Notes and Sources--Selected Bibliography Index
520			_aPatricia 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 revolution ary 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. We see her as a secret writer for the comics, a brilliant creator of disturbing fictions, and erotic predator with dozens of women (and a few good men) on her love list. The Talented Miss Highsmith 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.
600	1	0	_aHighsmith, Patricia _d(, 1921-1995)
650		4	_aMexican American Authors _v--Biography
650		0	_aBisexuals _x--United States _v--Biography
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