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The Resource Patricia Highsmith : her diaries and notebooks, 1941-1995, edited by Anna von Planta ; with an afterword by Joan Schenkar

Patricia Highsmith : her diaries and notebooks, 1941-1995, edited by Anna von Planta ; with an afterword by Joan Schenkar

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Summary
"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"--
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
First edition.
Extent
xv, 999 pages
Contents
  • 1921-1940: The Early Years
  • 1941-1950: Early Life in New York, and Different Ways of Writing
  • 1951-1962: Living Between the United States and Europe
  • 1963-1966: England, or The Attempt to Settle Down
  • 1967-1980: Return to France
  • 1981-1995: Twilight Years in Switzerland
  • Afterword by Joan Schenkar: Pat Highsmith's After-School Education: The International Daisy Chain
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Time Line of Highsmith's Life and Works
  • Sample of Highsmith's Foreign- Language Notes
  • Note on the Journals' Composition
Isbn
9781324090991
Instance
Label
Patricia Highsmith : her diaries and notebooks, 1941-1995
Title
Patricia Highsmith
Title remainder
her diaries and notebooks, 1941-1995
Statement of responsibility
edited by Anna von Planta ; with an afterword by Joan Schenkar
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Contributor
Editor
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"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"--
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Provided by publisher
Biography type
autobiography
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DLC
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1921-1995,
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Highsmith, Patricia
Dewey number
  • 818/.5403
  • B
  • 928/.1
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
PS3558.I366
LC item number
Z46 2021
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • bibliography
  • filmographies
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
Planta, Anna von
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Highsmith, Patricia
  • Highsmith, Patricia
  • Authors, American
Label
Patricia Highsmith : her diaries and notebooks, 1941-1995, edited by Anna von Planta ; with an afterword by Joan Schenkar
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 972-977), filmography (pages 978-979), and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
1921-1940: The Early Years -- 1941-1950: Early Life in New York, and Different Ways of Writing -- 1951-1962: Living Between the United States and Europe -- 1963-1966: England, or The Attempt to Settle Down -- 1967-1980: Return to France -- 1981-1995: Twilight Years in Switzerland -- Afterword by Joan Schenkar: Pat Highsmith's After-School Education: The International Daisy Chain -- Acknowledgments -- A Time Line of Highsmith's Life and Works -- Sample of Highsmith's Foreign- Language Notes -- Note on the Journals' Composition
Dimensions
25 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
xv, 999 pages
Isbn
9781324090991
Isbn Type
(hardcover)
Lccn
2021042660
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
2021042660
Label
Patricia Highsmith : her diaries and notebooks, 1941-1995, edited by Anna von Planta ; with an afterword by Joan Schenkar
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 972-977), filmography (pages 978-979), and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
1921-1940: The Early Years -- 1941-1950: Early Life in New York, and Different Ways of Writing -- 1951-1962: Living Between the United States and Europe -- 1963-1966: England, or The Attempt to Settle Down -- 1967-1980: Return to France -- 1981-1995: Twilight Years in Switzerland -- Afterword by Joan Schenkar: Pat Highsmith's After-School Education: The International Daisy Chain -- Acknowledgments -- A Time Line of Highsmith's Life and Works -- Sample of Highsmith's Foreign- Language Notes -- Note on the Journals' Composition
Dimensions
25 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
xv, 999 pages
Isbn
9781324090991
Isbn Type
(hardcover)
Lccn
2021042660
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
2021042660

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