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Patricia Highsmith, one of the greatest writers of 20th Century American fiction, had a life as darkly compelling as that of her favourite "hero-criminal," the talented Tom Ripley. The author maps out this richly bizarre life from her birth in Texas to Hitchcock's filming of her first novel, "Strangers On a Train", to her self-exile in Europe.

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"This is a biography of clarity and style. A model of its kind.... Schenkar's writing is witty, sharp and light-handed." - The New York Times Book Review "Both dazzling and definitive... A volume as original as its contemptible, miserable, irresistible subject." - Los Angeles Times"

The Talented Miss Highsmith The Secret Life and

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      Publisher: Picador USA
      Publication Date: 04/01/2011
      ISBN13: 9780312363819, 978-0312363819
      ISBN10: 0312363818
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      Book Synopsis
      Patricia Highsmith, one of the greatest writers of 20th Century American fiction, had a life as darkly compelling as that of her favourite "hero-criminal," the talented Tom Ripley. The author maps out this richly bizarre life from her birth in Texas to Hitchcock's filming of her first novel, "Strangers On a Train", to her self-exile in Europe.

      Trade Review
      "This is a biography of clarity and style. A model of its kind.... Schenkar's writing is witty, sharp and light-handed." - The New York Times Book Review "Both dazzling and definitive... A volume as original as its contemptible, miserable, irresistible subject." - Los Angeles Times"

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