Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires: The Life of Patricia Highsmith
Bradford, Richard
| Publication Date |
2021 |
| ISBN |
9781448217908 |
| Publisher |
Bloomsbury Caravel, |
| Binding |
Hardback |
| Condition |
Very good copy in good+ dust jacket |
| SKU |
22745 |
| Notes |
Dust jacket is a little rubbed and rolled to the top edge, and there is a small mark to the closed page edges else book and jacket are very clean and neat. |
Description
Hardback. 258pp. First edition. Biography of the writer Patricia Highsmith whose best known works include The Talented Mr. Ripley and Strangers on a Train (filmed by Alfred Hitchock in 1951) and also the lesbian romance novel The Price of Salt later reissued and filmed as Carol. This unflinching assessment looks at Highsmith’s work in the context of her status as an important lesbian writer as well as looking at her anti-Semitism, racism, misogyny, alcoholism and self-loathing. Small selection of black and white plates. Indexed.
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