The Talented Miss Highsmith. The Secret Life And Serious Art Of Patricia Highsmith

JOAN SCHENKAR

Publication: St Martin's Press, 2009, New York

First edition. Thick 8vo, Black cloth, titles stamped in silver on the spine, xx, 684 pp., frontispiece [photograph], a note on biography, illustrated from photographs, charts, maps, diagrams, plans, notes and sources, notes, selected bibliography, index.

"Joan Schenker is the first writer to grapple with Patricia Highsmith on every level of her being, from her bizarre personal life to her incredibly prolific writing life." --- dust jacket promotional blurb. As new, unread copy in dust jacket.