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    The Talented Miss Highsmith

    Joan Schenkar

    Patricia Highsmith, one of the greatest writers of 20th Century American fiction, had a life as darkly compelling as that of her favourite hero-criminal, the talented Tom Ripley. The author…

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    Truly Wilde: The Unsettling Story of Dolly Wilde, Oscar’s Niece

    Joan Schenkar

    This is the biography of Oscar Wilde’s niece Dolly who died as she lived - repeating her uncle’s history of excess, collapse, and ruin. Joan Schenkar presents both a portrait…

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    Patricia Highsmith: Selected Novels and Short Stories

    Patricia Highsmith

    Patricia Highsmith’s novels are peerlessly disturbing … bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night. -The New Yorker

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    A Suspension of Mercy: A Virago Modern Classic

    Patricia Highsmith

    A masterpiece of noir fantasy in which Highsmith revels in eliciting the unsettling psychological forces that lurk beneath the surface of everyday life.

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    Those Who Walk Away: A Virago Modern Classic

    Patricia Highsmith

    Those Who Walk Away is a brilliant psychological thriller - a deadly game of cat-and-mouse in the labyrinthine streets of Venice.

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    The Glass Cell: A Virago Modern Classic

    Patricia Highsmith

    In 1961, Patricia Highsmith received a fan letter from a prison inmate. A correspondence ensued and Highsmith became fascinated with the psychological traumas that incarceration can inflict.

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    Signs of Life: Six Comedies of Menace

    Joan M. Schenkar

    Joan Schenkar, widely regarded as America’s most original female contemporary playwright, is the author of numerous experimental plays which she refers to as comedies of menace.

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    Flung Out of Space: Inspired by the Indecent Adventures of Patricia Highsmith: Inspired by the Indecent Adventures of Patricia Highsmith

    Grace Ellis

    Flung Out of Space is both a love letter to the essential lesbian novel, The Price of Salt, and an examination of its notorious author, Patricia Highsmith. Veteran comics creators…

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    Patricia Highsmith’s Diaries and Notebooks: The New York Years, 1941-1950

    Patricia Highsmith

    Essential for understanding Patricia Highsmith’s transgressive life and prophetic work, this volume is also one of the most observant and ecstatic accounts … about being young and alive in New…

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