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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Dawson, Jill
Titre(s) : The crime writer [Texte imprimé] / Jill Dawson
Publication : London : Sceptre, 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (247 p.) ; 21 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references
In 1964, the eccentric American novelist Patricia Highsmith is hiding out in a cottage
in Suffolk, to concentrate on her writing and escape her fans. She has another motive
too - a secret romance with a married lover based in London. Unfortunately it soon
becomes clear that all her demons have come with her. Prowlers, sexual obsessives,
frauds, imposters, suicides and murderers: the tropes of her fictions clamour for
her attention, rudely intruding on her peaceful Suffolk retreat. After the arrival
of Ginny, an enigmatic young journalist bent on interviewing her, events take a catastrophic
turn. Except, as always in Highsmith's troubled life, matters are not quite as they
first appear ...Masterfully recreating Highsmith's much exercised fantasies of murder
and madness, Jill Dawson probes the darkest reaches of the imagination in this novel
- at once a brilliant portrait of a writer and an atmospheric, emotionally charged,
riveting tale
Sujet(s) : Highsmith, Patricia (1921-1995)
Genre ou forme : Roman
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 1444731130. - ISBN 9781444731132 (br.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45694348v
Notice n° :
FRBNF45694348
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