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Before Alfred Hitchcock adapted her debut novel, Strangers on a Train, for the big screen, before her suave and sociopathic Thomas Ripley snaked his way into the canon of psychological suspense, and before The Price of Salt became a cult classic of romantic obsession, who was Patricia Highsmith? Focused on her formative years in Manhattan, this condensed edition of Highsmith's monumental Diaries and Notebooks reveals "Pat" at her most passion...

Soviel Patricia Highsmith geschrieben hat, eines hat sie immer ausgeklammert: sich selbst. Deshalb war es eine Sensation, als nach ihrem Tod 1995 in ihrem Wäscheschrank 18 Tage- und 38 Notizbücher gefunden wurden, die sie nahtlos seit ihrer College-Zeit geführt hatte. Eine Frau, die um die halbe Welt reiste, mindestens zwei Leben gleichzeitig führte und aus einer kühlen Halbdistanz psychologische Romane über elementare Themen schrieb wie Liebe...

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...