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Books
Edition
First edition.
by
Highsmith, Patricia, 1921-1995,
Call Number
B HIGHSMI PATRICI
Publication Date
2021
Physical Description
xv, 999 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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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Books
Edition
1st ed.
by
Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004.
Call Number
818.5409 SONTAG SUSAN
Publication Date
2012
Physical Description
xii, 523 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary
A second volume of journals shares intimate reflections on the writer's artistic and political development during a trip to Hanoi at the peak of the Vietnam War and throughout her film-making years in Sweden before the dawn of the Reagan era.
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Books
Edition
1st ed.
by
Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004.
Call Number
818.5409 SONTAG SUSAN
Publication Date
2008
Physical Description
xiv, 318 p. ; 22 cm.
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by
Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969.
Call Number
B KEROUAC JACK
Publication Date
2001
Physical Description
xx, 339 p. ; 22 cm.
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Books
by
Sarton, May, 1912-1995.
Call Number
B SARTON MAY
Publication Date
1992 1973
Physical Description
208 p. : ill., ports. ; 21 cm.
Format:
Books
Edition
1st ed.
by
Cheever, John.
Call Number
B CHEEVER JOHN
Publication Date
1991
Physical Description
399 p. ; 24 cm.
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