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Highsmith - A Romance Of The 1950's
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Patricia Highsmith (Twayne's United States Authors Series, No. 683)
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 134.05 $Twaynes United States Authors Series presents concise critical introductions to great writers and their works.Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an authors work, each study takes account of major literary trends and important scholarly contributions and provides new critical insights with an original point of view. An Authors Series volumeaddresses readers ranging from advanced high school students to university professors. The book suggests to the informed reader new ways of considering a writers work. A reader new to the work under examination will, after reading theAuthors Series, be compelled to turn to the originals, bringing to the reading a basic knowledge and fresh critical perspectives.Each volume features: A critical, interpretive study and explication of the authors works A brief biography of the author An accessible chronology outlining the life, work, and relevant historical background of the author Aids for further study -- complete notes and references, a selected annotated bibliography and an index A readable style presented in a manageable length
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Patricia Highsmith Omnibus
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 74.00 $These four novels follow the 20-year career of the discriminating and utterly unscrupulous Tom Ripley, who lives a wealthy and privileged life, thanks to a rich wife and an unerring determination to murder anyone who stands in his way.
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Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks (Paperback)
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 23.36 $Paperback. 'My secrets - the secrets that everyone has - are here, in black and white.'Before Alfred Hitchcock adapted her debut novel, Strangers on a Train, for the big screen; before Thomas Ripley snaked his way into the canon of psychological suspense; before Carol became a cult classic of romantic obsession, who was Patricia Highsmith?Beginning in 1941 and encompassing Highsmith's adventurous twenties, The New York Years is an intimate self-portrait of a young artist, reading voraciously and honing her craft, intertwined with scenes from her dizzying social life, rife with sleepless nights spent in the queer bars of Greenwich Village.This condensed edition of Highsmith's monumental Diaries and Notebooks offers all the pleasures of her fiction, along with an unparalleled insight into the life, mind and times of this enigmatic, iconic, trailblazing author. 'One of the most observant and ecstatic accounts . . . about being young and alive in New York City' New York Times The condensed edition of Highsmith's monumental Diaries and Notebooks, focusing on her formative years in Manhattan Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Patricia Highsmith [first edition]
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 23.36 $Twaynes United States Authors Series presents concise critical introductions to great writers and their works.Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an authors work, each study takes account of major literary trends and important scholarly contributions and provides new critical insights with an original point of view. An Authors Series volumeaddresses readers ranging from advanced high school students to university professors. The book suggests to the informed reader new ways of considering a writers work. A reader new to the work under examination will, after reading theAuthors Series, be compelled to turn to the originals, bringing to the reading a basic knowledge and fresh critical perspectives.Each volume features: A critical, interpretive study and explication of the authors works A brief biography of the author An accessible chronology outlining the life, work, and relevant historical background of the author Aids for further study -- complete notes and references, a selected annotated bibliography and an index A readable style presented in a manageable length
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Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks: 1941-1995
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 30.41 $Book is in NEW condition. 3.02
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Patricia Highsmith: Selected Novels and Short Stories
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 30.98 $"Patricia Highsmith's novels are peerlessly disturbing . . . bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night."―The New Yorker The remarkable renaissance of Patricia Highsmith continues with the publication of Patricia Highsmith: Selected Novels and Short Stories, featuring two groundbreaking novels as well as a trove of penetrating short stories. With a critical introduction by Joan Schenkar, situating Highsmith's classic works within her own tumultuous life, this book provides a useful guide to some of her most dazzlingly seductive writing. Strangers on a Train (1950), transformed into a legendary film by Alfred Hitchcock, displays Highsmith's genius for psychological characterization and tortuous suspense, while The Price of Salt (1952), with its lesbian lovers and a creepy PI, provides a thrilling and highly controversial depiction of "the love that dare not speak its name." Patricia Highsmith: Selected Novels and Short Stories firmly establishes Highsmith's centrality to American culture by presenting key works that went on to influence a half-century of literature and film. Abandoned by the wider reading public in her lifetime, Highsmith finally gets the canonical recognition that is her due.
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Patricia Highsmith's Diaries and Notebooks: The New York Years, 1941-1950
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 26.92 $Zustand: Sehr gut - Gepflegter, sauberer Zustand. Seiten: 672 Sprache: Englisch Produktart: Bücher
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The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 60.59 $From the late mistress of suspense and noir fiction comes a chilling anthology of short fiction, featuring works from five of her classic short story collections combined into a single anthology. By the author of The Talented Mr. Ripley. Reader's Guide available.
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The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith [first edition]
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 21.00 $Patricia 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 revolutionary 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.
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The Talented Miss Highsmith Format: Paperback
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 22.57 $Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt is now a major motion picture (Carol) starring Cate Blanchett and Mia Wasikowska, directed by Todd HayesA 2010 New York Times Notable BookA 2010 Lambda Literary Award WinnerA 2009 Edgar Award NomineeA 2009 Agatha Award NomineeA Publishers Weekly Pick of the WeekPatricia Highsmith, one of the great writers of twentieth-century American fiction, had a life as darkly compelling as that of her favorite "hero-criminal," the talented Tom Ripley. Joan Schenkar 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 long, strange self-exile in Europe. We see her as a secret writer for the comics, a brilliant creator of disturbing fictions, and an 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.
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Die Talentierte Miss Highsmith: Mit Einem Bildteil
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Beautiful Shadow : A Life of Patricia Highsmith
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 79.00 $'Every adult has secrets' says one of the characters in Patricia Highsmith's lesbian novel CAROL, first published under a pseudonym in 1952 as THE PRICE OF SALT. Indeed, Highsmith - author of STRANGERS ON A TRAIN and THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY - had more than her fair share. During her life, she felt uncomfortable about discussing the source of her fiction and refused to answer questions about her private life. Yet after her death in February 1995, Highsmith left behind a vast archive of personal documents - diaries, notebooks and letters - which detail the links between her life and her work. Drawing on these astonishingly intimate papers, together with material gleaned from her closest friends and lovers, Andrew Wilson has written the first biography of an author described by Graham Greene as the 'poet of apprehension' and by Gore Vidal as 'one of our greatest modernist writers'. In this compelling biography Andrew Wilson illuminates the dark corners of Highsmith's life, casts light on mysteries of the creative process and reveals the secrets that the writer chose to keep hidden until after her death.
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Nothing That Meets the Eye: The Uncollected Stories of Patricia Highsmith
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 41.19 $"Highsmith is no more a practitioner of the murder mystery genre...than are Doestoevsky, Faulkner and Camus."―Joan Smith, Los Angeles Times The Patricia Highsmith renaissance continues with Nothing That Meets the Eye, a brilliant collection of twenty-eight psychologically penetrating stories, a great majority of which are published for the first time in this collection. This volume spans almost fifty years of Highsmith's career and establishes her as a permanent member of our American literary canon, as attested by recent publication of two of these stories in The New Yorker and Harper's. The stories assembled in Nothing That Meets the Eye, written between 1938 and 1982, are vintage Highsmith: a gigolo-like psychopath preys on unfulfilled career women; a lonely spinster's fragile hold on reality is tethered to the bottle; an estranged postal worker invents homicidal fantasies about his coworkers. While some stories anticipate the diabolical narratives of the Ripley novels, others possess a Capra-like sweetness that forces us to see the author in a new light. From this new collection, a remarkable portrait of the American psyche at mid-century emerges, unforgettably distilled by the inimitable eye of Patricia Highsmith. A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post Rave of 2002. "Almost every piece...contains touches that reveal what a subtle writer Highsmith was."―James Campbell, New York Times "A thrilling compendium of work full of surprises."―Ed Siegel, Boston Globe "One of the exhilarating effects of reading Highsmith's stories...is the greatly enlarged sense of her range and energy...in their surehandedness, their amazing breadth and abundance...[these stories] compel attention and they add significantly to her already formidable presence."―James Lasdun, Washington Post
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Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 24.95 $The life of Patricia Highsmith was as secretive and unusual as that of many of the best-known characters who people her "peerlessly disturbing" thrillers and short stories. Yet even as her work has found new popularity in the last few years, the life of this famously elusive writer has remained a mystery. For Beautiful Shadow, the first biography of Highsmith, British journalist Andrew Wilson mined the vast archive of diaries, notebooks, and letters she left behind, astonishing in their candor and detail. He interviewed her closest friends and colleagues as well as some of her many lovers. But Wilson also traces Highsmith's literary roots in the work of Poe, noir, and existentialism, locating the influences that helped distinguish Highsmith's writing so startlingly from more ordinary thrillers. The result is both a serious critical biography and one that reveals much about a brilliant and contradictory woman, one who despite her acclaim and affairs always maintained her solitude.
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Ripley's Game [Paperback] Patricia Highsmith
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 43.12 $film edition Penguin paperback, vg In stock shipped from our UK warehouse
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On Edge : Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett
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Under a Dark Angel's Eye : The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 22.61 $Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
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Purple Noon (Criterion Collection)
Vendor: Deepdiscount.com Price: 39.95 $Alain Delon (THE LEOPARD) was at his most impossibly beautiful when PURPLE NOON (PLEIN SOLEIL) was released and made him an instant star. This ripe, colorful adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's vicious novel THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY, directed by the versatile Rene Climent (FORBIDDEN GAMES), stars Delon as Tom Ripley, a duplicitous American charmer in Rome on a mission to bring his privileged, devil-may-care acquaintance Philippe Greenleaf (ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS' Maurice Ronet) back to the United
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The American Friend (Criterion Collection)
Vendor: Deepdiscount.com Price: 39.95 $Patricia Highsmith's novel "Ripley's Game" is skillfully adapted into this Hitchcock-style thriller by Wim Wenders. A modest picture-framer, who believes he's terminally ill, is dragged into the seedy criminal underworld by an amoral art dealer who convinces him to carry out a Mob hit.
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