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Her diaries and notebooks : 1941-1995 / Patricia Highsmith ; edited by Anna von Planta ; with an afterword by Joan Schenkar.

Her diaries and notebooks : 1941-1995 / Patricia Highsmith ; edited by Anna von Planta ; with an afterword by Joan Schenkar.
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Adult Non Fiction   Chester Hill . . Available .  
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ISBN 9781474617604 (paperback)
Name Highsmith, Patricia, 1921-1995 author.
Title Her diaries and notebooks : 1941-1995 / Patricia Highsmith ; edited by Anna von Planta ; with an afterword by Joan Schenkar.
Published London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson; 2021.
©2021
Description xv, 999 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Notes Includes bibliographical references (pages 974-977), filmography (pages 978-979) and index.
Contents 1921-1940: The Early Years -- 1941-1950: Early Life in New York, and Different Ways of Writing -- 1951-1962: Living Between the United States and Europe -- 1963-1966: England, or The Attempt to Settle Down -- 1967-1980: Return to France -- 1981-1995: Twilight Years in Switzerland -- Afterword by Joan Schenkar: Pat Highsmith's After-School Education: The International Daisy Chain -- Acknowledgments -- A Time Line of Highsmith's Life and Works -- Sample of Highsmith's Foreign- Language Notes -- Note on the Journals' Composition.
Summary Published for the very first time for the centenary of her birth, Patricia Highsmith's diaries and notebooks offer an unparalleled, unforgettable insight into the life and mind of one of the 20th century's most talented, complex and fascinating writers. Posthumously discovered in Highsmith's linen cupboard and edited down from 56 thick spiral notebooks by her devoted editor, Anna Von Planta, this one-volume assemblage of her diaries and notebooks traces Highsmith's mesmerising double life. The diaries show Highsmith's unwavering literary ambitions - coming often at huge personal sacrifice. We see her writing the books that would make her name, including the Ripley novels which mark the apotheosis of the psychological thriller, and The Price of Salt (later adapted into the 2015 film Carol), one of the first mainstream novels to depict two women in love. In these pages, we see Highsmith reflecting on good and evil, loneliness and intimacy, sexuality and sacrifice, love and murder. We see her tumultuous romantic relationships play out alongside her acquaintances with other writers including Jane Bowles, Aaron Copland, John Gielgud, Truman Capote, Carson McCullers, Arthur Koestler, and W. H. Auden. And in her skewering of McCarthy-era America, her prickly disparagement of contemporary art, her fixation on love and writing, and ever-percolating prejudices, we see the famously secretive Highsmith revealing the roots of her psychological angst and acuity. Written in her inimitable and dazzling prose and offering all the pleasures of Highsmith's novels, these are one of the most compulsively readable literary diaries to publish in generations - and yield, at last an unparalleled, unfiltered, unforgettable picture of this enigmatic, iconic, trailblazing author's true self.
Subjects Highsmith, Patricia, -- 1921-1995 -- Diaries
Highsmith, Patricia, -- 1921-1995 -- Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Diaries
Genre Diaries
Notebooks
Other Names Planta, Anna von editor.
Schenkar, Joan writer of afterword.
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