EAN: 9781474617611

HIGHSMITH PATRICIA HER DIARIES AND NOTEBOOKS

My secrets-the secrets that everyone has-are here  in black and white.'  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. 
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 be published in
generations - and yield  at last an unparalleled  unfiltered  unforgettable picture of this
enigmatic  iconic  trailblazing author's true self.

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