Diaries and notebooks
Highsmith, Patricia, 1921-19952021
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Total copies: 1
Patricia Highsmith's first novel was picked up by Hitchcock and was a world-wide success. Her second novel was meant to tell everything about her true inside and dare what no-one had dared to write before: a lesbian love-story with a happy ending. But when she eventually relented to publish it under a pseudonym, it was a decision that would shape her life more than she could have guessed at the time. Henceforth she would vent her inner life either encoded in her future novels or - unbeknownst to most - in the 18 diaries and 38 notebooks she kept throughout her life. The way she talked about her journals - especially her notebooks - indicates that she always meant to bring them into the open one day. Her journals reveal a most complex life that might help explain why her novels were so much more than just crime novels: world literature.
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Diaries and notebooks / Patricia Highsmith.
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Imprint:
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2021.
Collation:
1008 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9781474617598 (hbk)147461759X (hbk)9781474617628 (ePub ebook)
Dewey class:
813.54 HIG813.54
LC class:
PS3558.I366
Language:
English
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BRN:
379757