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Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires

Richard , Bradford

Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires
Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires

Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires

Richard , Bradford

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Description

'My New Year's Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle - may they never give me peace'
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH (New Year's Eve, 1947)


Made famous by the great success of her psychological thrillers, The Talented Mr Ripley and Strangers on a Train, Patricia Highsmith is lauded as one of the most influential and celebrated modern writers. However, there has never been a clear picture of the woman behind the books.


The relationship between Highsmith's lesbianism, her fraught personality - by parts self-destructive and malicious - and her fiction, has been largely avoided by biographers. She was openly homosexual and wrote the seminal lesbian love story, Carol. In modern times, she would be venerated as a radical exponent of the LGBT community. However, her status as an LGBT icon is undermined by the fact that she was excessively cruel and exploitative of her friends and lovers.


In this new biography, Richard Bradford brings his sharp, incisive style to one of the great and most controversial writers of the twentieth century. He considers Highsmith's bestsellers in the context of her troubled personal life; her alcoholism, licentious sex life, racism, anti-Semitism, misogyny and abundant self-loathing.



Richard Bradford

Specifications

  • Publisher
    Bloomsbury USA
  • Pub date
    Jan 2021
  • Pages
    272
  • Theme
    Biography: writers
  • Dimensions
    241 x 162 x 32 mm
  • Weight
    554 gram
  • EAN
    9781448217908
  • Hardback / bound
    Hardback / bound
  • Language
    English

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