Patricia Highsmith : her diaries and notebooks, 1941-1995
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New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norotn & Company, [2021].
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New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norotn & Company, [2021].
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xv, 999 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 974-977), filmography (pages 978-979), and index.
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"Publishing for the centenary of her birth, Patricia Highsmith's diaries "offer the most complete picture ever published" of the canonical author (New York Times). Relegated during her lifetime to the pulpy genre of mystery, Patricia Highsmith has emerged since her death in 1995 as one of "our greatest modernist writers" (Gore Vidal). Presented for the first time, this one-volume assemblage of her diaries and notebooks-posthumously discovered behind Highsmith's linens and culled from more than 8,000 pages by her devoted editor, Anna von Planta-traces the mesmerizing double-life of an artist who "[worked] like mad to be something." Beginning in 1941 during her junior year at Barnard, the diaries exhibit the intoxicating "atmosphere of nameless dread" (Boston Globe) that permeates classics such as Strangers on a Train and the Ripley series. In her skewering of McCarthy-era America, her prickly disparagement of contemporary art, her fixation on love and writing, and ever-percolating prejudices, the famously secretive Highsmith reveals the roots of her psychological angst and acuity. In one of the most compulsively readable literary diaries to publish in generations, at last we see how Patricia Highsmith became Patricia Highsmith"--,Provided by publisher.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Highsmith, P., & Planta, A. v. (2021). Patricia Highsmith: her diaries and notebooks, 1941-1995 (First edition.). Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norotn & Company.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Highsmith, Patricia, 1921-1995 and Anna von, Planta. 2021. Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks, 1941-1995. Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norotn & Company.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Highsmith, Patricia, 1921-1995 and Anna von, Planta. Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks, 1941-1995 Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norotn & Company, 2021.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Highsmith, Patricia, and Anna von Planta. Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks, 1941-1995 First edition., Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norotn & Company, 2021.

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