{"product_id":"9781429961011","title":"The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatricia Highsmith's \u003ci\u003eThe Price of Salt\u003c\/i\u003e is now a major motion picture\u003ci\u003e (Carol\u003c\/i\u003e) starring Cate Blanchett and Mia Wasikowska, directed by Todd Hayes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePatricia 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, \u003ci\u003eStrangers On a Train,\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Talented Miss Highsmith\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154120687856,"sku":"9781429961011","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429961011_p0.jpg?v=1763749215","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429961011","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}