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BEAUTIFUL SHADOW: A LIFE OF PATRICIA HIGHSMITH.

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ANDREW WILSON
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An edition of Beautiful Shadow (2003)

BEAUTIFUL SHADOW: A LIFE OF PATRICIA HIGHSMITH.

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The first and highly anticipated biography of the author of such classics of suspense as Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley.

The life of Patricia Highsmith was as secretive and unusual as that of many of the best-known characters who people her "peerlessly disturbing" writing. Yet even as her work - her thrillers, short stories, and the pseudonymous lesbian novel The Price of Salt - have 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, journalist Andrew Wilson mined the vast archive of diaries, notebooks, and letters that Patricia Highsmith 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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Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith
2010, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Bloomsbury Publishing, Bloomsbury Paperbacks
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Beautiful shadow: a life of Patricia Highsmith
2004, Bloomsbury
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Beautiful Shadow
May 3, 2004, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith
July 15, 2003, Bloomsbury USA
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Beautiful Shadow
June 2, 2003, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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BEAUTIFUL SHADOW: A LIFE OF PATRICIA HIGHSMITH.
2003, BLOOMSBURY
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Library of Congress
PS3558.I366

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Open Library
OL22531205M
ISBN 10
0747563144
Library Thing
205823
Goodreads
2858333

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In one of Highsmith's early notebooks there is a short vignette about a boy who wonders why he is happy at one moment and sad the next.
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